The SUPREME COURT in Chilamkurti Bala Subrahmanyam VS Samanthapudi Vijaya Lakshmi & Anr, while referring to the judgment in Saheb Khan vs. Mohd. Yousufuddin & Ors., held that it is not the material irregularity that alone is sufficient for setting aside of the sale. The applicant has to go further and establish to the satisfaction of the Court that the material irregularity or fraud, as the case may be, has resulted in causing substantial injury to the applicant in conducting the sale. It is only then the sale so conducted could be set aside under Order 21 Rule 90(2) of the Code.
Court approached in the early stages of arbitration will prevail in all other subsequent proceedings
In National Highway Authority of India v. Hindustan Steelworks Construction Limited, the Hon'ble Delhi High Court opined that once the parties have approached a certain court for relief under Act at earlier stages of disputes then it is same court that, parties must return to for all other subsequent proceedings. Language of Section 42 of Act is categorical and brooks no exception. In fact, the language used has the effect of jurisdiction of all courts since it states that once an application has been made in Part I of the Act then ―that Court alone shall have jurisdiction over arbitral proceedings and all subsequent applications arising out of that agreement and arbitral proceedings shall be made in that Court and in no other Court. Court holds that NHAI in present case cannot take advantage of Section 14 of the Limitation Act, 1963 for explaining inordinate delay in filing present petition under Section 34 of this Act in this Court.
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