The Court was dealing with a petition under Section 34 of the Arbitration and Reconciliation Act, 1996.
The Court was told that the petitioner received a copy of the award on June 12 and filed a petition before the High Court on September 13 – a day after the end of limitation period under Section 34(3) of the Act.
However, the Court noted that the petition filed on September 13 had only 73 pages and was without statement of truth, the award under challenge, vakalatnama and other documents.
The registry of the Court had also pointed out that the petition was unsigned and had no pagination. In total, the registry pointed out 16 defects in the plea.
The petition was then refiled on October 24, 2019. This time it had over 1,300 pages but was still marked defective by the registry. It was returned at least three times by the registry pointing out several defects before being finally accepted on November 19, 2019.
Source: Barandbench
