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Parent company stands outside arbitration

A foreign group of companies cannot be made a party to a domestic commercial arbitration merely because its Indian constituent had a contract with a company here. If the foreign company was neither a signatory to the arbitration agreement nor did it have any causal connection with the process of negotiations or execution, it cannot be dragged to the arbitration. The Supreme Court stated so in its judgment in Reckitt Benckiser (India) Ltd vs Reynders Label Printing India Ltd. There was an agreement between the two Indian firms under which the label company agreed to print