New Delhi, Feb. 5 -- The Delhi High Court has imposed Rs 1 lakh in costs on a judgment debtor for pursuing a repeated and frivolous legal challenge at the execution stage of an arbitral award, in a case where the underlying issues had already been finally decided by courts, including the Supreme Court.

Court Rejects Repeated Objection as Abuse of Process

Justice Harish Vaidyanathan Shankar dismissed the objection application, finding that the attempt to reopen settled jurisdictional questions amounted to an abuse of the judicial process and a calculated effort to delay enforcement of the award.

The challenge, which claimed that the sole arbitrator was unilaterally appointed, had been raised and rejected repeatedly in earlier stages of ...