In a major relief to Future Group, the Supreme Court on Thursday halted seizure of assets owned by Future Coupons, Future Retail and Future Group promoter Kishore Biyani.
A single judge bench of the Delhi High Court had ordered the attachment of assets in March. It had directed the Future group firms and promoters to file their affidavits giving details of their assets for violating an emergency arbitrator award.
The Supreme Court passed the order after hearing elaborate arguments by Senior Advocates Harish Salve and Mukul Rohatgi for Future group and Senior Advocate Gopal Subramanium for Amazon. The top court said it was taking the decision to balance the interest of both parties.
In its order, the Supreme Court said, “….taking into consideration the submissions advanced by the learned senior counsel for the parties and particularly the fact that the parties have approached the Singapore International Arbitration Centre for vacating the Emergency Award passed by the Emergency Arbitrator…..we think it fit to balance the interest of both the parties by staying all further proceedings before the Delhi High Court for the time being.”
The Supreme Court will hear the matter again after four weeks. The matter had come up for hearing before a three-judge bench of Chief Justice N V Ramana, Justice Surya Kant and Justice A S Bopanna.
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