Section 36 embodies a genuine tension between the efficiency arbitration promises and the accountability that public policy requires. The problem is not judicial oversight itself but its execution without temporal constraints and procedural clarity.

The Supreme Court must advance an interpretation of second proviso to Section 36(3) based on some guidelines and the scope of Section 34.

The authors analyse how the recent amendments to the arbitration law are counterintuitive to India’s evolution into an arbitration avenue.