Reliance Industries has mounted a strong counter to the government petition in Delhi High Court, seeking to block its $15-billion deal with Saudi Aramco, saying “the petition is an abuse of process as no arbitration award has fixed any final liability of dues on the company”.
In a counter affidavit, Reliance said it was a “falsehood” to say that the arbitration tribunal had passed an award requiring the company and its partners to pay $3.5 billion to the government.
It said “the petition is an abuse of process as “it portrays that a sum of money is due and payable under the final award and purports to compute the money payable on a basis neither found in the arbitration award nor disclosed in the petition”.
