The Indian arbitration has strived hard to develop a robust state of infrastructure for its stakeholders. The importance of arbitration has been able to cross the cliff of being Alternative Dispute Resolution and even if not crossed is truly on the brink to cross such edge and become an accepted practice of dispute resolution in civil and commercial field.To increase the acceptability of arbitration it is necessary that its stakeholders avail all the benefits in much effective manner when compared to orthodox system of litigation. Hence, Indian arbitration framework aims to incorporate all the remedies and measures present under general civil and commercial laws. One of such features is of interim measure which can be availed by the parties either through the judicial intervention (u/s. 9) or even from the arbitral tribunal (u/s. 17) as per the amendments of 2015 in the Arbitration and Conciliation Act of 1996(herein referred as Act) is that of interim measure.This article will particularly focus on the power of courts and arbitral tribunal to grant interim measures present under Arbitration and Conciliation Act, 1996 through the legislative design as well as jurisprudential development through judicial decisions.

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