Crsc Research And Design Institute ... vs Dedicated Freight Corridor ... on 30 September, 2020
Author: C
contract of the bank guarantee are to be
read together. Bank guarantee/letters of credit is an
independent contract between the bank and the beneficiary ... bank
guarantee furnished by the Bank does not refer to any of the
conditions for payment under the bank guarantee. It is true
that
Court had in para 20 observed that
the bank cannot refuse to honour the Bank Guarantee on the ground that
conditions of Clause ... Guarantee is unequivocal and unconditional or is
conditional. If the Bank Guarantee is unconditional, the Court would refrain
from issuing the injunction
language contained in the bank guarantee and when the court is to examine as to whether the bank guarantee is unconditional or in absolute terms ... original bank guarantee is returned to us.
28. As per this bank guarantee, the bank has clearly stated that :
(a) the bank is the guarantor
above, considering the bank guarantee as
Performance Bank Guarantee as well as Advance Bank
Guarantee and considering the same as unconditional
irrevocable bank guarantees ... bank guarantee as a whole and the terms and
conditions of the bank guarantee, the bank guarantee
can be said to be an unconditional, irrevocable
bank guarantee
was valid upto 31.01.2009. Before the insertion of this clause, the earlier
bank guarantee given by the Federal Bank was an unconditional ... case law deals with only unconditional bank guarantees. In
the present case, originally there was an unconditional bank guarantee and
later, the same was converted
conditional bank guarantee. Unless the person who revokes the bank guarantee fulfils his obligation fixed under the conditional bank guarantee, the bank is not liable ... said that the bank guarantee is a conditional bank guarantee. To make a bank guarantee as conditional bank guarantee, a particular clause of the underlying
Guarantee and not an unconditional
Bank Guarantee. Merely because in the Bank Guarantee Ex. D2
the word "unconditional or without protest or cavil ... unconditional. The
terms of Bank Guarantee have to be seen to conclude whether the
Bank Guarantee is conditional and unconditional and mere reading
that bank guarantee is an independent contract between bank and the beneficiary thereof. The bank is always obliged to honour its guarantee as long ... exist, and not otherwise.
29. Clearly, the Bank Guarantees are unconditional and irrevocable. Under the Bank Guarantee, the bank undertakes to pay the appellant immediately
Nationalized Banks
(b) IDBI Bank
(c) AXIS Bank
(d) HDFC Bank
(e) ICICI Bank
(f) Kotak Mahindra Bank
(g) Yes Bank
There shall ... guarantee was furnished.
The terms of the bank guarantee are,
therefore, extremely material. Since the
bank guarantee represents an independent
contract between the bank