National Company Law Tribunal, New Delhi: The Coram of P.N. Prasad, Judicial Member and Rahul Bhatnagar, Technical Member, declared insolvency proceedings against the builder Supertech Limited.
An application was filed to initiate the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process against Supertech Limited under Section 7 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016 for the alleged default by the respondent in settling an amount of Rs 431,92,53,302.
Counsel for the Corporate Debtor had admitted the debt and default.
“In order to initiate CIRP under Section 7 the applicant is required to establish that there is a financial debt and that a default has been committed in respect of that financial debt.”
Tribunal on perusal of the documents found that the Corporate Debtor had indebted and defaulted the repayment of loan amount.
Therefore, Coram admitted the present petition and initiated CIRP on the Corporate Debtor with immediate effect.
Mr Hitesh Goel was appointed as Interim Resolution Professional.
Material on record clearly depicted that the respondent had availed the credit facilities and committed default in repayment of the outstanding loan amount.
Tribunal on being satisfied that the present application was held that the applicant financial creditor was entitled to claim its outstanding financial debt from the corporate debtor and that there had been default in payment of the financial debt.
Further, the Coram directed that in terms of Section 13(2) of the Code, public announcement shall be made by the Interim Resolution Professional immediately with regard to the admission of this application under Section 7 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016.
Moratorium in terms of Section 14 of IBC was declared. Thus following prohibitions are imposed:
(a) the institution of suits or continuation of pending suits or proceedings against the corporate debtor including execution of any judgment, decree or order in any court of law, tribunal, arbitration panel or other authority;
(b) transferring, encumbering, alienating or disposing of by the corporate debtor any of its assets or any legal right or beneficial interest therein;
(c) any action to foreclose, recover or enforce any security interest created by the corporate debtor in respect of its property including any action under the Securitization and reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002;
(d) the recovery of any property by an owner or lessor where such property is occupied by or in the possession of the corporate debtor.
It was made clear that the provisions of the moratorium shall not apply to transactions which might be notified by the Centre or supply of essential goods or services to the Corporate Debtor are not to be terminated or suspended or interrupted during the moratorium period. As per IBC, the provisions of the moratorium shall not apply to the surety in a contract of guarantee.
Registrar of Companies shall update its website by updating the status of ‘Corporate Debtor’. [Union Bank of India v. Supertech Ltd., 2022 SCC OnLine NCLT 40, decided on 25-3-2022]
Advocates before the Tribunal:
Counsel for the Petitioner: Alok Kumar, Advocate
Counsel for the Respondent: Kanishk Khetan, Advocate