The Supreme Court on Wednesday adjourned to January 11 the hearing on the Future group plea against a Delhi High Court order declining stay on the emergency award of the Singapore International Arbitration Centre (SIAC) that bars the Rs 24,713 crore takeover of Future Retail by Reliance Retail.

A bench comprising Chief Justice N.V. Ramana and justices A.S. Bopanna and Hima Kohli, which had earlier sought small written submissions from parties to the litigation in place of “truckload” of bulky documents, again expressed displeasure on Wednesday over the written notes submitted by Future Group. On November 23, the bench was irked over the “truckload” of bulky documents filed by parties in the case and had asked whether the purpose was just to drag on or “harass the judges” and sought a common small compilation of documents.

It had asked counsels for the parties to file a small volume of documents so that the matter can be disposed of, and fixed the case for hearing on December 8.
The bench said though on November 23 the court had adjourned the matter to ensure that the two parties submit their short written submissions instead of voluminous documents, the short note submitted by FRL was poorly drafted which could not be understood by the judges.

“We don’t understand anything from the notes. We can’t make out what is written,” the CJI told senior advocate Harish Salve appearing for FRL.

The court said even Amazon had submitted its written submission late at 10 pm on Tuesday thus making it difficult for the judges to go through the same.