The District Court has the jurisdiction to execute an arbitral award and the commercial court has not been conferred such jurisdiction - District Court erred in transferring the matter to the Commercial Court

Shaji Augustine v. M/s. Chithra Woods Manors Welfare Association

 [2021 SCC Online Ker. 9840], 

where it was observed that the procedure to be followed for execution of an arbitration award was not mentioned anywhere in the Commercial Courts Act and there was nothing to indicate that the jurisdiction of other courts had been excluded. The court also analysed Section 15 of the Commercial Courts Act, 2015 to infer that after the establishment of commercial courts, applications under the Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996, pertaining to commercial disputes with a specified value, pending before a Civil Court were to be transferred to Commercial Courts. However, this does not include suits and applications already reserved for final judgment by the civil court prior to the establishment of Commercial Courts and also execution petitions.