The Court noted the line of the reasoning in the case of Ssangyong Engineering and Construction Company Ltd. v. National Highways Authority of India that to prevent any uncertainty in law, while seeking to fine tune the law to restrict the scope of interference in awards, the legislature took a conscious decision to make applicable the amendments only from the date it came into force. " The general phraseology of a clause which seeks to include any amendment to the Act would not be able to be availed of to expand the scope of scrutiny as it would appear to run contrary to the legislative intent of Section 26 of the Amendment Act.", the Court held. Regarding the award denying benefits to the respondent as the wife sent the false and defamatory emails, the Bench noted that though the wife was initially impleaded in the proceedings under Section 9 of the said Act, she was later dropped from the arbitration proceedings as she was not a party to the agreement vide consent order. "In a sense the agreement accepted that the wife of the respondent had no role to play and the respondent could not be penalised for her conduct.