https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=197446 Section 8 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act is treated as a mandatory referral provision once the statutory conditions are met, and the court should not refuse reference by deciding at the threshold whether the underlying contract is void, illegal, opposed to public policy, or tainted by fraud. Those validity objections are left to the arbitral tribunal under the Act's scheme, including the principle of separability and the tribunal's competence to rule on its own jurisdiction. Impleadment of non-signatories, where no substantive relief is sought against them, does not by itself defeat a request for arbitration; a party cannot avoid its arbitration agreement by joining unnecessary respondents. en-us Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 06 Jan 2018 16:17:28 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=197446 Section 8 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act is treated as a mandatory referral provision once the statutory conditions are met, and the court should not refuse reference by deciding at the threshold whether the underlying contract is void, illegal, opposed to public policy, or tainted by fraud. Those validity objections are left to the arbitral tribunal under the Act's scheme, including the principle of separability and the tribunal's competence to rule on its own jurisdiction. Impleadment of non-signatories, where no substantive relief is sought against them, does not by itself defeat a request for arbitration; a party cannot avoid its arbitration agreement by joining unnecessary respondents. Case-Laws Indian Laws Thu, 24 Jul 2008 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=197446