Financial creditor to get the benefit of exclusion of time spent in recovery proceeding before DRT: NCLT

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Case Details: JM Financial Asset Reconstruction Co. Ltd. v. Samay Electronics (P.) Ltd. - [2021] 131 taxmann.com 11 (NCLT - Ahd.)

Judiciary and Counsel Details

    • Madan B. Gosavi, Judicial Member
    • Navin Pahwa, Ld Sr. Counsel and Raju Kothari, Ld. Counsel for the Appellant. 
    • Vishwas Shah, Ld. Counsel for the Respondent.

Facts of the Case

In the given case, the bank had granted and disbursed the loan to the corporate debtor in the year 1998 and the terms of repayment of the loan were extended from time to time. Since the corporate debtor committed default persistently, in the year 2010, the bank filed recovery proceedings in DRT after serving notice under SARFAESI Act, 2002.
On 26-10-2010, the bank and the corporate debtor arrived at a settlement, and accordingly, an award was passed in that proceeding based on consent terms.
Later on, the promoters of the corporate debtor filed an appeal against the consent decree before DRAT and that appeal was still pending.
However, the bank assigned debt to the financial creditor, an asset reconstruction company, by deed of assignment dated 26-2-2014 and the financial creditor continued with the appeal in DRAT.
On 28-5-2018, the financial creditor filed an application under section 7 against the corporate debtor to initiate CIRP of the corporate debtor on the ground that the corporate debtor committed default in paying a financial debt. Thereafter, the corporate debtor contested the claim on the ground that the claim was time-barred.
The NCLT passed the order of admission. However while doing so, both members of the Bench wrote separate orders. The Member technical held that continuous proceeding for the same debt was going on from 2010 and appeal was still pending in DRAT, Mumbai and, therefore, the CIRP against the corporate debtor was to be admitted whereas the Member Judicial held that time spent in the proceeding before DRT and DRAT (under SARFAESI Act) was not permitted to be excluded for the purpose of limitation to file instant proceedings and, therefore the claim was time-barred.

NCLT Held

The NCLT held that application under section 7 filed against the corporate debtor in 2018 for default that took place in 2014 was maintainable and was not barred as financial creditor got the benefit of exclusion of time spent in recovery proceedings against a corporate debtor before DRT. Thus, CIRP against the corporate debtor was to be admitted.

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