New Delhi, Nov. 3 -- The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the Union government's appeal against a Delhi High Court order allowing Vedanta Ltd and Ravva Oil (Singapore) Pvt Ltd to enforce foreign arbitration awards involving claims of $99 million, criticising the Centre for resisting enforcement of awards that date back more than two decades and warning that such litigation could undermine confidence in India's arbitration regime. A bench of justices JB Pardiwala and Manmohan questioned the government's approach to arbitration, asking why it was frustrating enforcement of an arbitral award even after the dispute had been adjudicated by foreign courts. The bench also questioned the Centre's commitment to promoting arbitration as an effective means of dispute resolution. "What are these arguments? You are frustrating an arbitral award like this? At the stage of enforcement of it?" remarked the court, expressing concern over the message such litigation would send to international investors and parties choosing India as an arbitration destination. "And we talk about all of this arbitration and seat and this and that?...Nobody will trust you," said the court, questioning the government's continued resistance to the awards. The bench ultimately found no reason to interfere with the high court's July 1, 2026 judgment, which had rejected the Centre's objections to enforcement of the awards passed in 2004 and 2016 by an arbitral tribunal seated in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. "We are of the view that no error, not to speak of any error of law, could be said to have been committed by the high court in passing the impugned judgment and order," said the Supreme Court while dismissing the appeal. The Supreme Court's dismissal of the Centre's appeal now leaves the high court's directions undisturbed....