IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION
CIVIL APPEAL NO. OF 2024 (Arising out of Special Leave Petition (Civil) No.11386 of 2022)
WIPRO LIMITED … APPELLANT VERSUS
EXCISE AND TAXATION TECHNICAL SERVICES AGENCY & ANOTHER … RESPONDENTS
O R D E R
Leave granted.
2. The appellant/claimant and the first respondent is
engaged in arbitration proceedings. The genesis of the
controversy in this case arises from an application filed by
the State of Punjab seeking its deletion from the array of
parties as respondent No.2 in the Statement of Claim filed by
the appellant/claimant. By the said application, the State of
Punjab prayed that its name be struck of by the Arbitral
Tribunal as it is not a party to the Arbitration Agreement or
even otherwise in anyway concerned with the arbitration.
3. By the order of the learned sole Arbitrator dated
09.01.2021, the application filed by the State of Punjab was
allowed and deletion of its name from the array of parties in
the Statement of Claim was permitted. Consequently, the name
of State of Punjab arrayed as respondent No.2 in the Claim
Petition was struck of from the array of parties. As a result,
another application filed by the claimant under Section 24 of
the Arbitration and Conciliation Act was disposed of as being
otiose. The said order was assailed by the appellant herein
before the Court of Distr...