https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=297046 Under Section 9 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, a court may grant interim protection by directing payment of contractual dues where liability is prima facie established. Here, the lease agreement fixed monthly rent for the relevant period and the respondent continued using the leased oxygen plants, so the stipulated rent was treated as payable pending arbitration. Disputed claims for maintenance expenses and alleged adjustments were left for the arbitral tribunal and could not defeat or postpone payment because they involved factual controversies and no clear basis for immediate set-off was shown. Interim relief therefore preserved the contractual position, subject to the arbitral outcome. en-us Mon, 14 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 07 Sep 2021 16:04:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=297046 Under Section 9 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, a court may grant interim protection by directing payment of contractual dues where liability is prima facie established. Here, the lease agreement fixed monthly rent for the relevant period and the respondent continued using the leased oxygen plants, so the stipulated rent was treated as payable pending arbitration. Disputed claims for maintenance expenses and alleged adjustments were left for the arbitral tribunal and could not defeat or postpone payment because they involved factual controversies and no clear basis for immediate set-off was shown. Interim relief therefore preserved the contractual position, subject to the arbitral outcome. Case-Laws Companies Law Mon, 14 Dec 2020 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=297046