New Delhi: The Supreme Court on Saturday appointed former Chief Justice of India and current Rajya Sabha member Ranjan Gogoi as the sole arbitrator in a case to resolve disputes of a contract agreement.
The bench comprising of Justice Indu Malhotra and Justice Ajay Rastogi have given directions in a case named MCM Service Private Limited vs Italia Thai Development Public Company Ltd.
"By consent of the parties, we appoint Shri Ranjan Gogoi, former Chief Justice of India, as the sole arbitrator to resolve the disputes arising out of the contract agreement. The arbitral proceedings will be conducted by the Mumbai Centre for International Arbitration with the seat of the arbitration at New Delhi," read the order.
Former CJI Ranjan Gogoi retired on 19 November 2019 after delivering a historic verdict on Ram Janmabhoomi-Babri Masjid dispute.
During and after his tenure he has garnered a lot of controversies.
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He along with Justice Madan B Lokur, Kurien Joseph and Justice Chelameswar had called a press conference to level allegations against the then CJI Deepak Misra for bench fixing. Later on, he was accused in a sexual harassment case by a court's staff where he was given a clean chit by the top court.
However, the woman who had levelled charges against him has been reinstated in the court which has raised doubts over the clean chit given to Gogoi. The Ayodhya verdict given by him in favour of Hindus was criticised and later on, his appointment as an RS member within 4 months of his retirement had also raised a lot of eyebrows.
He has presided over many landmark cases like Rafale, scrapping of Article 370, National Register of Citizens, etc.
