The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), New Delhi bench of Justice Ashok Kumar Bhardwaj (Judicial Member) and Anil Raj Chellan (Technical Member) has held that third parties who sold land to the Corporate Debtor cannot be said to fall within the ambit of expression “any persons who were knowingly parties to the carrying on the business of the Corporate Debtor” as used in Section 66 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (“Code”). It observed that an application under the Section may be maintainable against the persons who were responsible for the management of the Corporate Debtor.
Background Facts
On 17.02.2019, the Tribunal initiated the Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process (“CIRP”) against M/s…
