Recourse to Section 14 of A&C Act not available in respect of any challenge to arbitrator under Section 12(1)

UOI Vs Aps Structures Pvt. Ltd (Delhi High Court) It is well settled that recourse to Section 14 of the A&C Act is not available in respect of any challenge to the arbitrator under Section 12(1) of the A&C Act. Such a recourse is permissible only in the event the arbitrator is ineligible by virtue of Section 12(5) of the A&C Act. Concededly, none of the circumstances as specified in the Seventh Schedule exist in the present case. Thus, per se, the learned Arbitrator cannot be held to be ineligible under Section 12(5) of the A&C Act to act as an arbitrator. A challenge to the ap...