India, Nov. 27 -- The Bombay High Court on Tuesday upheld a 2023 arbitral award which directed the Uttar Pradesh (UP) Legislative Assembly Secretariat to pay Rs.5.37 crore to Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) for illegally terminating a contract to conduct a recruitment examination.

"The findings recorded by the learned arbitrator are well supported by evidence on record. They cannot be treated as perverse in any manner," justice NJ Jamadar said while dismissing the assembly secretariat's appeal against the arbitral award dated.

The UP Assembly had in December 2015 hired TCS to conduct an examination for recruitment of review officers and assistant review officers for its secretariat. As per terms of the agreement, TCS was supposed to man...