National Company Law Appellate Tribunal: Order of the Adjudicating Authority rejecting the application filed by the petitioners under Section 7 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016, was set aside by a two-member bench comprising of S.J. Mukhopadhaya, Chairperson and Bansi Lal Bhat, Judicial Member.
The petitioners were financial creditors of the respondent company. They filed an application under Section 7 for initiating the insolvency resolution process. However, such an application was rejected by the Adjudicating Authority observing that the application did not disclose ‘dates of default’. The petitioners were in appeal against the said order of the Adjudicating Authority.
The NCLAT after considering the record held that the impugned order was not sustainable. The application was rejected on technical grounds. As stated by the petitioners, there was only a typographical defect as to the dates mentioned in the application, which could have easily been corrected. The Tribunal held that before rejecting petitioners’ application, the Authority must give opportunity to the applicants to rectify defect. In absence of such an opportunity, the impugned order was set aside. Appeal was accordingly disposed of. [Satyaprakash Aggarwal v. Vistar Metal Industries (P) Ltd., 2018 SCC OnLine NCLAT 264, dated 21-05-2018]
