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Issues: Whether the Official Liquidator could be directed to pay the property tax, electricity consumption charges and building maintenance charges relating to the auctioned property purchased by the applicant in liquidation proceedings.
Analysis: The application was under Rule 9 of the Companies (Court) Rules, 1959. Section 530 of the Companies Act, 1956 gives priority to certain dues, but only in the context of distribution of the company's assets among creditors in winding up and does not assist a purchaser seeking to fasten such liabilities on the Official Liquidator after sale of the property. Section 55 of the Transfer of Property Act, 1882 applies to transfers inter vivos and, in the absence of a contract to the contrary, allocates public charges as between seller and buyer; it does not govern sales in invitum such as a court auction. The auction conditions also negatived any claim in respect of defects or defaults in the assets, and the applicant purchased with notice of the dues.
Conclusion: The applicant was not entitled to compel the Official Liquidator to discharge the outstanding statutory and maintenance dues, and the claim was rejected.
Ratio Decidendi: In a court auction sale in liquidation, absent a contractual term shifting the burden, the auction purchaser cannot require the Official Liquidator to pay pre-existing property-related dues; general provisions governing private transfers do not apply to sales in invitum.
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