The Hon’ble Delhi High Court in Madhu Sudan Sharma & Ors. v. Omaxe Ltd.[1]recently held that once a party has taken objection in its written statement to the jurisdiction of the Court to entertain the suit due to the presence of the arbitration clause between the parties, it would amount to sufficient compliance of Section 8 of the Arbitration & Conciliation Act, 1996 (“the Act”). The Court also held that once a party extracts an arbitration clause in its written submission to object to the jurisdiction of the Court, a separate application under Section 8 of the Act would not be necessary.Continue Reading Section 8 of the Arbitration & Conciliation Act, 1996, Does Not Envisage Making of a Separate Application If Due Objection is Made Before the Court to its Jurisdiction