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Issues: Whether the Official Liquidator can adjudicate and quantify the claim of a secured financial corporation that has been permitted to stand outside the liquidation proceedings and to exercise its statutory rights under the State Financial Corporations Act.
Analysis: The statutory scheme under Section 29 of the State Financial Corporations Act enables a financial corporation to proceed against the secured assets, but the amendments to the Companies Act, 1956, particularly the proviso to Section 529(1) and Section 529A, impose only a limited restriction to protect the pari passu charge of workmen. That restriction does not convert the secured creditor into an unsecured creditor, nor does it require the corporation to prove its debt before the Official Liquidator. The role of the Company Court and the Official Liquidator is confined to ensuring that the workmen's dues are safeguarded and that distribution complies with Section 529A. If the company represented by the Official Liquidator disputes the corporation's claim, the remedy lies in appropriate civil proceedings and not in the Official Liquidator assuming adjudicatory jurisdiction over the secured creditor's entitlement.
Conclusion: The Official Liquidator has no jurisdiction to adjudicate or quantify the claim of the secured financial corporation in such circumstances, and the challenge to the sale conditions was rejected.