The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has dismissed IDBI Bank’s plea challenging a National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) order that rejected the private lender’s request for insolvency proceedings against Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL). NCLAT is the the appellate body for the decisions of bankruptcy court NCLT.
The matter relates to an agreement signed on August 3, 2012, in which ZEEL was a corporate guarantor for a working loan facility provided by IDBI Bank to Siti Networks Ltd. Later, Siti Networks defaulted on the loan facility of Rs 150 crore, after which IDBI Bank filed an insolvency plea against ZEEL. In 2019, the main borrower Siti Networks’ account turned into a non-performing asset (NPA)….
