Why staying silent during a Supreme Court reference may now cost a party its day in the writ court. Most reports on this ruling treat it as one more Supreme Court decision narrowing Article 227 review over arbitral tribunals. 1 to 3 then went to the Gauhati High Court under Article 227. If a missing finding of perversity is now fatal, High Courts have every reason to dismiss Article 227 petitions at the threshold, without even looking at the record. Counsel citing Bezboruah should notice this tension rather than assume the Article 227 door is shut for every case in this category.