Sudarsan Trading Co vs Govt. Of Kerala & Anr on 14 February, 1989
In Sudarsan Trading Co. v. Govt. of Kerala and Anr. in para 29 at page 53, Sabyasachi Mukharji, J. speaking for the Court observed that the court in a non-speaking award cannot probe into the reasoning of the award. The Court further observed that only in a speaking award the court may look into the reasoning of the award, and it is not open to the court to probe the mental process of the arbitrator and speculate, where no reasons are given by the arbitrator as to what impelled him to arrive at his conclusion. Furthermore, the reasonableness of the arbitrator's reasons cannot be challenged. The arbitrator's appraisement of the evidence is never a matter for the court to entertain.