India, May 17 -- The Singapore International Commercial Court (SICC) has set aside an arbitral award worth Rs.80.29 crore by an international arbitration panel comprising three retired judges from India, after concluding that the judges had delivered their decision with a "closed mind", having copied large sections from previous awards without independently considering the facts and submissions in the present case.

The SICC ruling comes just a month after the Court of Appeal of the Singapore Supreme Court upheld the annulment of an international arbitration award chaired by former Chief Justice of India (CJI) Dipak Misra after discovering that nearly half the decision was copied verbatim from earlier awards he had authored in separate bu...