The Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled that plea by financial creditor for initiation of insolvency resolution process against a corporate debtor before the adjudicating authority will not get time barred on the ground that it had been filed beyond a period of three years from the date of declaration of the loan account as NPA.
A bench of Justices Indira Banerjee and V Ramasubramanian set aside an order of National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) by which it had said that application under section 7 of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) of Dena bank (now Bank of Baroda) for initiation of insolvency process was time barred.
The bench said, To sum up, in our considered opinion an application under Section 7 of the IBC would …
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