NCLAT Set Aside AA’s Dissolution Order as No Assets Existed for Liquidation

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Dissolution Order

Case Details: Janak Jagjivan Shah Resolution Professional Rainbow Infrabuild (P.) Ltd. v. Committee of Creditors - [2024] 169 taxmann.com 463 (NCLAT-New Delhi)

Judiciary and Counsel Details

  • Ashok Bhushan, Chairperson, Barun Mitra & Arun Baroka, Technical Member
  • Dheeraj Garg, Adv. for the Appellant.
  • Pratik Thakkar, Adv. for the Respondent.

Facts of the Case

In the instant case, the NCLT initiated the CIRP against the corporate debtor, and the appellant was appointed as RP. RP made the public announcement, and the financial creditor of the corporate debtor submitted one claim, which RP admitted.

The RP constituted the CoC, which consisted of the financial creditors as 100% members. The RP invited an Expression of Interest, but no EoI was received. The CoC resolved not to initiate the liquidation process and decided to file an application for dissolution of the corporate debtor.

RP filed an interim application, which the Adjudicating Authority rejected vide the impugned order, holding that the application under section 54 of the IBC for the dissolution of the corporate debtor could be filed only when the corporate debtor’s assets were liquidated.

RP was directed to carry out the transaction audit. Thereafter, RP filed an instant appeal against the impugned order.

It was noted that the CIRP was unsuccessful, and no liquidation order was passed, recourse to section 54 could not have been taken by RP. Further, since the CoC, which is the sole financial creditor who initiated the CIRP against the corporate debtor, was not ready to proceed any further, the CIRP period had already come to an end, no further steps were required in the CIRP of the corporate debtor. RP could have closed the matter by intimating the Registrar of Companies to strike off the name of the company from the Register of Companies.

NCLAT Held

The NCLAT held that there was no cash or cash balance except for a meagre amount of Rs.1,451/- and no other assets were found; CIRP came to an end, and direction by the Adjudicating Authority for transaction audit was unsustainable. Therefore, the impugned order was to be set aside.

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