The NCLT Kolkata bench of Ms. Bidisha Banerjee (Judicial Member) and Shri Arvind Devanathan (Technical Member) have held that mere possession over assets of the corporate debtor under the SARFAESI Act does not prevent the financial creditor from preferring an application under section 7 of the IBC.
Brief Facts
The Corporate Debtor Roadwings International Pvt. Ltd. by way this application preferred under Section 65 of the I&B Code against the Financial Creditor Srei Equipment Finance Limited has sought for rejection of the company petition being C.P. (IB) No. 224/KB/2023, on the ground that there is no existence of debt and default as claimed in the company petition and the financial creditor has fraudulently and…