Order vs Unknown on 17 June, 2010
In Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. v. SBI, Overseas Branch, Bombay, [2000] 6 SCC 385, when a bank having given guarantee at the instance of guarantor declining to honour the guarantee on the ground that it was issued against the counter guarantee of a foreign bank which was restrained by foreign court from making payment and the foreign bank has directed the Indian bank by way of a restraint, while the Foreign Exchange Manual, 1999 does not create any impediment on the Indian bank in making payment under the bank guarantee, it was held that the beneficiary was the sole judge of the question of primary contract, as follows: