Stamped Out Or Not: Finality To The Issue Of Unstamped Arbitration Agreement

On December 13, 2023 a seven judge bench of the Supreme Court in In Re: Interplay between Arbitration Agreements under the Arbitration And Conciliation Act, 1996 and the Indian Stamp Act, 1899[1], unanimously ruled on the issue surrounding the admissibility of unstamped or insufficiently stamped instrument in evidence, which arose in the context of...