JSA successfully represented TaskUs India Pvt. Ltd. in defending a Section 9 petition filed by Ensemble Infrastructure India Pvt. Ltd. before the Commercial Court, Indore. Ensemble sought wide interim measures, including stay of termination, injunction against engaging third-party vendors, and a direction to deposit a substantial amount-as alleged dues, arising from a turnkey design-and-build contract for TaskUs.
The Court dismissed the petition in its entirety, holding that the Master Purchase Agreement was a determinable contract, that termination was issued in accordance with the contract, and that no prima facie case, balance of convenience, or irreparable harm was established in favour of Ensemble
The case involved complex allegations of delay, scope variations, and competing technical narratives, with Ensemble seeking intrusive reliefs that would effectively reverse termination and freeze TaskUs’s ongoing fit-out operations. JSA successfully demonstrated that the contractor’s delays were documented, that TaskUs had lawfully terminated the contract, and that work had already been substantially completed by a replacement vendor, rendering the requested reliefs infructuous and commercially disruptive. The Court accepted TaskUs’s position that Section 9 cannot be used to resurrect a determinable contract, and that detailed factual disputes must be resolved only in arbitration, not through interim injunctions.
The matter was led by Padmaja Kaul (Partner) with support from Kushagra Sah (Senior Associate) and Vansh Bhutani (Associate).
Padmaja is a proficient legal practitioner with extensive and diverse experience of over 13 years in corporate commercial laws and dispute resolution, specializing in commercial litigation, arbitration, white collar crime, employment disputes, insolvency and pre-dispute advisory.