Allahabad High Court Upholds The Termination Of The Arbitrator’s Mandate, Citing An Unjustified Eight-Year Delay In Proceedings

he Allahabad High Court has upheld the termination of the Arbitrator’s mandate, citing an unjustified eight-year delay in proceedings. The bench of Justice Rohit Ranjan Agarwal observed that the arbitrator sat over the arbitral proceedings for 8 long years without any progress and passed the award in haste after the application seeking its removal was made. Ergo, the Court held that Recently, the Allahabad High Court directed the official state authorities to pay a sum of Rs. 2 lakhs, and vacant land to two persons who were admittedly unlawfully dispossessed of their land by the them.