Introduction
In Godrej And Boyce Manufacturing Company Limited v. Remi Sales and Engineering Limited (2025:BHC-OS:26730), the High Court of Bombay addressed a petition under Section 34 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 ("the Act") challenging an arbitral award directing payment of INR 4,25,44,680/- along with interest at 10% per annum in favour of the respondent-supplier of stainless steel seamless tubes.
The High Court dismissed the petition, holding that the Arbitral Tribunal's findings of fact were supported by evidence on record and did not suffer from perversity or patent illegality. The judgment reaffirms the well-settled principle that a Court exercising jurisdiction under Section 34 of the Act cannot re-appreciate evidence or substitute its own interpretation of contractual terms for that of the Tribunal.
