Jurisdiction

Notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this Part or in any other law for the time being in force, where with respect to an arbitration agreement any application under this Part has been made in a Court, that Court alone shall have jurisdiction over the arbitral proceedings and all subsequent applications arising out of that agreement and the arbitral proceedings shall be made in that Court and in no other Court.

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Execution proceedings

Application for execution proceedings made at place D, residing place of judgment debtor, while award was passed at place I. Held that decree cannot be executed unless and until court at place I transfer decree to court at place D; Computer Sciences Corporation India Pvt. Ltd. v. Harishchandra Lodwal, AIR 2006 MP 34.

Jurisdiction of Court

Section 42 provides that notwithstanding anything contained elsewhere in this part or in any other law for the time being in force, where with respect to an arbitrator agreement any application under this part has been made in a court, that court alone shall have jurisdiction over the arbitral proceedings and all subsequent applications arising out of that agreement and the arbitral proceedings shall be made in that court and in no other court. As already stated in the present case that the petitioner-company is a consortium partner with S Co. and L&T Ltd. and the three companies are equally liable and the contracts were executed by S as the leader of the consortium. The Bank guarantees which are subject matter before the High Court of Delhi. The leader of consortium S had already approached the High Court of Delhi as such according to section 42, all subsequent applications arising out of the arbitration agreement and arbitral proceedings shall have to be made in the High Court of Delhi and no other Court had jurisdiction to entertain such applications. Thus, the Court of the District Judge; Jaipur City had no jurisdictions to entertain the application submitted under section 11(6) read with section 8; Sirojexport Co. Ltd. v. Indian Oil Corpn. Ltd., AIR 1997 Raj 120.