https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=275143 Where a valid arbitration agreement exists, allegations of fraud, including the pendency of a criminal case, do not by themselves prevent reference of the dispute to arbitration when the parties have agreed to that forum. The Court also found that the joinder of a third defendant who was not a signatory to the arbitration agreement did not make the dispute incapable of arbitration, since the substance of the plaint remained an accounting dispute within the contractual arbitration clause. The challenge to reference of the matter to arbitration therefore failed. en-us Tue, 28 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 20 Sep 2018 06:49:53 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=275143 Where a valid arbitration agreement exists, allegations of fraud, including the pendency of a criminal case, do not by themselves prevent reference of the dispute to arbitration when the parties have agreed to that forum. The Court also found that the joinder of a third defendant who was not a signatory to the arbitration agreement did not make the dispute incapable of arbitration, since the substance of the plaint remained an accounting dispute within the contractual arbitration clause. The challenge to reference of the matter to arbitration therefore failed. Case-Laws Indian Laws Tue, 28 Oct 2014 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=275143