Supreme Court upholds Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code in its entirety
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The two-judge bench headed by Justice Rohinton Nariman also upheld the ban on promoters’ bids for the defaulting company undergoing the insolvency process. Today’s judgment will boost a clean credit culture, said Rajiv Kumar, secretary at the Department of Financial Services.
The ruling will help recover Rs 1.8 lakh crore in the current financial year, he said. The apex court was hearing a batch of petitions that had challenged the constitutional validity of IBC under Article 14 of the Constitution.
Several operational creditors had argued that IBC doesn’t make an intelligible differentia in the classification of a financial creditor and operational creditor, and hence violates Article 14. Operational creditors had argued that they provide services to companies and while they have the right to initiate insolvency proceedings if their payments are defaulted upon, the code bars them for participating in the resolution process through the committee of creditors.
Under IBC, the committee can only consist of financial creditors who assess and vote on resolution plans submitted by interested bidders. The second important argument was that by barring promoters from bidding for their own companies, IBC forces the sale of the company to new bidders. This, the petitioners had argued, is against the fundamental rights of promoters of a company.
The apex court dismissed both these arguments. Former Attorney General of India and Senior Advocate Mukul Rohatgi was among the lawyers appearing for the petitioners challenging the law. The top court had reserved its judgment on Jan. 16. #casansaar (Source - Bloomberg)
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