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Arbitration — setting aside awardsBeta · pending expert review

Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. v. Saw Pipes Ltd.

Supreme Court of India · 2003

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Issue
Educational issue addressed in Arbitration — setting aside awards.
Principle
Read the 'public policy' ground in s.34 to include 'patent illegality', widening the scope to set aside a domestic arbitral award — a position later narrowed by the 2015 amendments.

Derived from Lekha's curated record for Oil & Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. v. Saw Pipes Ltd. (Supreme Court of India, 2003). No reporter citation is asserted here — read the judgment at the official source and confirm with a qualified advocate. Beta, pending named-expert review.

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Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996Official statute

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Referenced in 62 judgments in the open corpus · most recent 2026

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