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Informist, Friday, Jan. 16, 2026

 

NEW DELHI – The Delhi High Court has refused to stay a resolution passed by the board of Oberoi Hotels Pvt. Ltd. granting Tejaswi Dixit the authority to deal with legal matters concerning the estate of the late P.R.S. Oberoi, former executive chairman of EIH Ltd. The court dismissed a plea filed by Oberoi's daughter, Natasha Oberoi, who argued that Dixit, alleged "a stranger" to the company, was unlawfully delegated authority by her brother and cousin to secure undue gains by taking over the company's legal representation, bypassing the board of directors and abdicating their fiduciary responsibilities.

 

Natasha Oberoi is the managing director of Oberoi Hotels, while her brother Vikramajit Singh Oberoi and cousin Arjun Singh Oberoi are the directors of the company. The petitioner stated that the board's resolution unlawfully bypassed the Articles of Association of Oberoi Hotels and delegates the legal matters to Dixit, who has no connection with the company, thereby compromising its governance, legal autonomy and statutory compliance. "The omnibus authority granted to Dixit sans any checks and balances has been designed to enable him to wield great powers with no responsibility," said the petitioner.

 

Natasha Oberoi had sought interim stay on the implementation of the resolution through a petition filed under Section 9 of the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996. Section 9 empowers courts to grant interim measures to protect parties' interests before, during, or even after arbitration. The petitioner said that the resolution wrongfully vested broad and omnibus power in "a stranger", pending the completion of arbitration proceedings and passing of an award.

 

However, the high court said there does not exist an arbitration agreement on the strength of which the petitioner could file the instant Section 9 petition. The document which contains the purported arbitration clause, namely the Articles of Association of Oberoi Hotels, is not signed by the petitioner, said the court. The court said the petitioner was not a party to the agreement containing the alleged arbitration clause, and that Clause 30A of the Articles of Association, hich the petitioner contends is an arbitration clause, did not evince any intention to arbitrate.

 

In 2021, P.R.S. Oberoi executed his last and final will, which was amended through a codicil in 2022, under which the petitioner and her sister were the primary legatees. However, Vikramajit Oberoi had contested the will and codicil on the basis that it doesn't reflect the wishes of the late M.S. Oberoi, the father of P.R.S Oberoi. The case regarding the will and codicil is already going on before the high court.  End

 

Reported by Surya Tripathi

Edited by Tanima Banerjee

 

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