Ram Barai Singh & Co. Vs. State of Bihar & Ors
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Head Note
Constitution of India, 1950 - Article 14 , Article 226
Writ Jurisdiction - Arbitration Clause - Alternative Remedy - Held that a constitutional remedy by way of writ petition is always available to an aggrieved party and an arbitration clause in an agreement between the parties cannot ipso facto render a writ petition "not maintainable" - Availability of alternative remedy is definitely a permissible ground for refusal by a writ court to exercise its jurisdiction in appropriate cases - But once the respondents had not objected to entertainment of the writ petition on ground of availability of alternative remedy, the final judgment rendered on merits cannot be faulted and set aside only on noticing by the Division Bench that an alternative remedy by way of arbitration clause could have been resorted to.
Topic(s)-Arbitration Clause - Writ maintainable