C.A. No. 003651 - 003653 / 2022

An appellate court exercising jurisdiction under Section 37 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 is strictly confined to examining the merits of the order under challenge and cannot travel beyond its statutory mandate to supervise criminal investigations. As analysed on casestatus.in, misuse of arbitration appeal proceedings to seek transfer or monitoring of an FIR constitutes an excess of jurisdiction and is liable to be quashed.