A federal court in Washington has set timelines for responses to be filed to an Indian government petition seeking dismissal of a suit by Britain's Cairn Energy
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The Indian government has asked a federal court in Washington to dismiss Britain's Cairn Energy suit seeking enforcement of a $1.2 billion arbitral award, saying it had sovereign immunity under US law
India lost the international arbitration with Cairn Energy at The Hague in December and the former was given an award of $1.2 billion
The IT department not just sold Cairn''s near 10 per cent shareholding in its Indian subsidiary but seized its dividends totalling Rs 1,140 crore and stopped tax refunds of Rs 1,590 crore.
The lower house of parliament on Friday approved a draft law introduced the previous day, cancelling a 2012 policy that enabled New Delhi to tax some foreign investments retrospectively
The government has now proposed to refund principal amount in full to the litigants, with certain conditions
Facing a payout of $1.2 bn-plus interest after an arbitration award went against it, government said it has not received any formal proposal from Cairn Energy plc to resolve issue within country
MoS Finance, in a written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha, said govt has filed an appeal against an international arbitration tribunal overturning levy of Rs 10,247 cr in back taxes on Cairn Energy
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Earlier this month, a French court permitted Cairn Energy to freeze several India-owned assets in Paris for executing the $1.2-billion international arbitral award in the decade-long tax dispute
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Assets are worth more than 20 million euros; FinMIn says no communication received in the matter Cairn is also eyeing assets in US, UK, Canada, Singapore, Mauritius and Holland
Govt should have settled the Cairn case long ago
Trying to ascertain the facts, and whenever such an order is received, appropriate legal remedies will be taken, says govt
Company says French development is 'necessary preparatory step' to take over Indian's state assets, calls for 'amicable settlement'.