The Delhi High Court in ARG Outlier Media Pvt. Ltd. v. HT Media Ltd. 2023 O.M.P (COMM) 161/2023, while dismissing a petition stated that once an arbitrator has accepted an agreement and passed an award on the basis of that agreement, then the agreement cannot be set aside on the ground that it was insufficiently stamped. It further held that since the petitioner had not raised an issue regarding the agreement being insufficiently stamped at any stage while leading evidence and since the petitioner had not raised an objection as to the validity of the agreement before the arbitrator, the same cannot be brought into question under Section 34 of the Arbitration Act once the arbitrator has already passed an award based on such an agreement. Recently, the Bombay High Court, in L&T Finance Limited v.