https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=283483 Section 34 proceedings under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act are a special, summary challenge to an arbitral award, confined to the statutory grounds for setting aside the award. The party attacking the award bears the burden of proof, and CPC-style issue framing is not an integral requirement. Fair procedure may still require affidavit evidence from both sides, with cross-examination where warranted. On this reasoning, refusal to allow affidavit evidence was treated as erroneous, the issues were to be recast to conform to Section 34, and the petitioners were entitled to file affidavits with corresponding opportunity to the respondents. en-us Fri, 12 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 24 Sep 2019 20:48:45 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=283483 Section 34 proceedings under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act are a special, summary challenge to an arbitral award, confined to the statutory grounds for setting aside the award. The party attacking the award bears the burden of proof, and CPC-style issue framing is not an integral requirement. Fair procedure may still require affidavit evidence from both sides, with cross-examination where warranted. On this reasoning, refusal to allow affidavit evidence was treated as erroneous, the issues were to be recast to conform to Section 34, and the petitioners were entitled to file affidavits with corresponding opportunity to the respondents. Case-Laws Indian Laws Fri, 12 Sep 2014 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=283483