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Issues: (i) Whether the Managing Director of a Financial Corporation could be appointed as the authority under Section 32G of the State Financial Corporations Act, 1951 without offending the rule against bias; (ii) Whether Section 32G could be invoked against a surety and whether the recovery mechanism was invalid for want of a prior civil adjudication or detailed speaking procedure.
Issue (i): Whether the Managing Director of a Financial Corporation could be appointed as the authority under Section 32G of the State Financial Corporations Act, 1951 without offending the rule against bias.
Analysis: The appointment of an officer of the Corporation does not by itself attract the doctrine that no person can be a judge in his own cause. That doctrine applies where the decision-maker has a personal interest, personal bias, or prior personal involvement in the very matter to be decided. The statutory scheme placed the control of the Corporation in the Board of Directors, and the Managing Director, as a high-ranking official, had no personal stake in the recovery. The cases relied on by the contrary view involved materially different facts where the deciding officer had direct personal participation or interest in the subject matter.
Conclusion: The Managing Director could validly be appointed as the authority under Section 32G, and the contrary view was rejected.
Issue (ii): Whether Section 32G could be invoked against a surety and whether the recovery mechanism was invalid for want of a prior civil adjudication or detailed speaking procedure.
Analysis: The expression "any amount due" in Section 32G was held wide enough to include amounts recoverable from the principal debtor as well as a surety or guarantor. The provision was treated as a summary recovery mechanism based on notice, hearing, and simple verification or arithmetical calculation of the amount due, not as a civil trial or decree-execution process requiring prior adjudication by a civil court. The absence of a detailed speaking order or appeal did not render the provision arbitrary where the statute contemplated compliance with natural justice and the recovery was only of sums already ascertainable on the record.
Conclusion: Section 32G applies against a surety, and the recovery procedure was upheld as valid.
Final Conclusion: The judgment of the Delhi High Court was reversed on the invalidity of the Managing Director's appointment and the quashing of the recovery certificates, while the remaining findings were sustained; the Punjab and Haryana High Court's view was affirmed.
Ratio Decidendi: A statutory recovery authority is not disqualified merely because it is an officer of the creditor corporation; disqualification arises only on proof of personal bias, personal interest, or prior involvement in the dispute, and a summary recovery provision allowing notice, hearing, and verification of an ascertainable amount can validly extend to sureties.
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