CIRP Admission Withheld for 3 Months as FC’s Claim was Less Than Debtor’s Receivables from a Decree and Arbitration Award

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Case Details: Srei Equipment Finance Ltd. v. Madhucon Projects Ltd. - [2023] 152 taxmann.com 39 (NCLT-Hyd.)

Judiciary and Counsel Details

    • Dr N. Venkata Ramakrishna Badarinath Nandulal, Judicial Member
      & Charan Singh, Technical Member
    • Deepak Bhattacharjee, Sr. Adv. & Prasoon Das for the Petitioner.
    • Hemendranath Reddy, Sr. Adv. & Prateek Reddy for the Respondent.

Facts of the Case

In the instant case, the corporate debtor availed various financial facilities from the financial creditor including a term loan. The financial creditor sent a demand notice to the corporate debtor who defaulted in the timely servicing of principal and interest payments.

The corporate debtor made OTS proposals towards discharge of its liability due to the financial creditor, however the same was rejected. The financial creditor preferred an instant application u/s 7 of the IBC seeking initiation of the CIRP against the corporate debtor on account of non-payment of the alleged debt.

It was noted that a decree for Rs. 163.55 crores and an Arbitral Award of Rs. 52.62 crores were issued in favour of the corporate debtor, which together made the total amount of receivables much greater than defaulted debt, and also the corporate debtor was a running concern.

NCLT Held

The NCLT observed that the onus of getting a particular payment appropriated towards a particular debt is on the debtor. Further, it is not the case of the corporate debtor that it had specifically instructed the financial creditor to appropriate the payments to the term loan under the said contract. So, nothing is wrong on the part of the financial creditor in appropriating the payments towards the earlier debt.

The NCLT held that the admission of the corporate debtor into the CIRP was to be kept in abeyance for three months from the date of the instant order with liberty to the financial creditor to approach the instant Tribunal if its dues continued to remain unpaid.

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