Resolution professional lacks adjudicatory power and must verify creditor claims with supporting evidence before rejecting them.

A resolution professional under the corporate insolvency resolution process has administrative, not adjudicatory, functions: the professional must receive and collate claims, verify supporting material, seek further evidence where needed, and make a best estimate where exact quantification is not possible. Rejection of a creditor's claim in a quasi-judicial sense is outside that role, and the distinction from the liquidator confirms that claims cannot be dismissed in entirety without proper verification and consideration of evidence. The position is subject to oversight by the committee of creditors and the Adjudicating Authority, and the challenged rejection was found unsustainable.

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Issues: Whether the resolution professional had jurisdiction to reject the creditor's claim in its entirety without examining the supporting evidence.

Analysis: The ruling turned on the settled position that a resolution professional does not exercise adjudicatory powers. In the corporate insolvency resolution process, the professional's role is administrative: to receive and collate claims, verify them, call for substantiating material where necessary, and make a best estimate of claims when exact quantification is not possible. The distinction drawn between the resolution professional and the liquidator shows that rejection or adjudication of claims in a quasi-judicial sense is not part of the resolution professional's function. The authority relied on the Supreme Court's exposition that the resolution professional acts as a facilitator of the resolution process, subject to the oversight of the committee of creditors and the Adjudicating Authority.

Conclusion: The resolution professional had no jurisdiction to reject the claim in its entirety without proper verification and consideration of evidence, and the appeal was therefore without merit.

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