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Associate Builders vs Delhi Development Authority on 25 November, 2014

6.Mr.Ramakrishnan Viraraghavan, Barrister-at-law appearing for Mr.S.Arjun Suresh, learned counsel for M/s.Dua Associates submitted that in terms of MOA the maximum limit payable as compensation has been fixed as Rs.25,10,000/- in Clause 17(a) and the award of the Tribunal cannot exceed this amount fixed. In this regard, the learned counsel refer to Section 74 of the Contract Act. Further, by relying upon the decision of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Associate Builders vs. Delhi Development Authority [(2015) 3 SCC 49], it is submitted that the Tribunal shall decide the dispute in terms of the contract and the Tribunal having failed to take into consideration Clause 17(a) of the MOA, the award is liable to be set aside as they are in contravention of Sections 18 and 19 of the Act. Further, it is submitted that the Tribunal has extensively relied upon the affidavit filed by the District Forest officer before the National Green Tribunal (NGT) in an application filed by the Director of the appellant in his individual capacity and that could not have been marked as a document by the Tribunal, that too without affording an opportunity to the appellant to cross examine the deponent of the affidavit, namely, the District Forest Officer. Further, it is submitted that the Tribunal violated the procedure which was agreed to between the parties as recorded in http://www.judis.nic.in 7 paragraph 20 of the award. In this regard, the learned counsel had elaborately referred to the findings recorded by the Tribunal in the award to impress upon this Court that the Tribunal had extensively relied upon the affidavit filed by the District Forest Officer before the NGT. Thus, the endeavour of the learned Senior Counsel is to bring the challenge to the impugned award within the ambit of Section 34(2)(a)(iii) of the Act.
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