Setback for Future as Delhi HC rejects pleas to quash Amazon arbitration

Dismisses its plea seeking a direction to SIAC to decide on its application

The Delhi High Court on Tuesday dismissed Future Group’s petitions seeking a direction to the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) -- adjudicating Amazon's objections against Future's deal with Reliance -- to decide on its application for terminating the arbitration proceedings.

“The arbitral tribunal is not bound by the procedure of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908, or the Indian Evidence Act, 1872. This flexibility would also vest the discretion in the arbitral tribunal to decide the manner in which the proceedings are to be conducted, including the order in which the applications filed by the parties are to be considered,” the