India, Nov. 18 -- The Supreme Court on Thursday told Future Group that proceedings initiated by it before the Delhi high court cannot "stultify" the ongoing international arbitration with US e-commerce giant Amazon.com NV Investment Holdings LLC, and agreed to list next week an application by the latter seeking a stay on the high court proceedings.

"You (Future Group) cannot keep on stultifying the proceedings before the arbitral tribunal. This is a ploy to delay those proceedings," the bench headed by Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dhananjaya Y Chandrachud said, taking a grim view of the proceedings initiated by Future Retail Limited (FRL) and its promoters in the high court, seeking termination of the arbitral proceedings initiated by Am...