Japanese telecom major DoCoMo on Monday accused its estranged Indian partner Tata Group of attempting to ‘re-litigate arguments’ that were already fully considered and rejected by the panel of london arbitrators appointed by the two companies.
“Instead of cooperating, and contrary to its publicly stated desire to pay, Tata used its court filing on September 2, to seek the Delhi court’s assistance to block the enforcement of the award in India. In doing so, it appears that Tata is attempting to re-litigate arguments that already were fully considered and rejected by the panel of distinguished lCIA arbitrators appointed by both Tata and DoCoMo,” the DoCoMo statement said.
DoCoMo further said it is in the company’s own interest to take all appropriate steps to enable Tatas to fulfil its payment obligations in India, and therefore “DoCoMo is open to any discussion with Tata and the Indian Government to enable this”.
Earlier on Monday, Tata Group said it has approached a london court seeking setting aside of an ex-parte order obtained by the Japanese firm for enforcement of the arbitral award against the Indian company.
“Tata Sons has on Monday filed an application to set aside an ex-parte order obtained by NTT DoCoMo from london’s commercial Court on July 25th, 2016,” Tata Sons said.
However, sources in DoCoMo told the news agency PTI, that while the application had indeed been filed by Tatas in london’s Commercial Court, the Indian company had not filed justification of evidence to support the application.