New Delhi, March 1 -- Addressing the Colloquium organised by the India International Arbitration Centre (IIAC) at Bharat Mandapam on Saturday, Vice-President Jagdeep Dhankhar said that the arbitral process in India is "just an additional burden to the normal hierarchical mechanism of adjudication."

"Arbitrators play as much critical role as members of the bar associated with the arbiter process. Surprisingly, there is, I'm saying it with utmost restraint, absolute tight-fist control of a segment of a category that is involved with arbiter process determination. This tight-fist control emanates out of judicial feats. And if we examine it on an objective platform, it is excruciatingly painful," he stated.

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