Arbitration Application Maintainable Despite Pendency of Reference before MSME Council

Advertisement National Collateral Management Services Limited Vs Kunj Bihari Food Processing Pvt Ltd (Jharkhand High Court) HC held that merely because one of the parties, has approached before the MSME Council, the instant Arbitration application cannot be held to be not maintainable The petitioner/applicant, admittedly, made request for appointment of arbitrator in a situation where the dispute has arisen as would appear from Annexure-2 appended to the instant application but the admitted position is that no arbitrator has been appointed. The question has been raised by the learned counse...