Contractual interpretation: No service tax liability or damages as costs for defending erroneous third-party tax notice.

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....Nil Arbitral Award upheld by HC on challenge to extraneous consideration regarding service tax liability and damages as costs. Agreements stipulated no service tax leviable, erroneous notice issued to petitioners who successfully defended before CESTAT. Arbitrator rightly held petitioners cannot fasten costs on respondent for defending erroneous third-party notice. No clause providing respondent's liability for wrongly imposed taxes. Petitioners failed to show patent illegality or fundamental breach of law to warrant interference u/s 34. Petition dismissed.....