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Court validates joint creditor applications under Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, allowing collective action. The Court upheld the validity of Section 7 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, emphasizing that joint applications by financial creditors with a ...
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Court validates joint creditor applications under Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, allowing collective action.
The Court upheld the validity of Section 7 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, emphasizing that joint applications by financial creditors with a total minimum threshold of Rs. 1 crore are permissible to initiate the corporate insolvency resolution process. The Court rejected the petitioner's argument that each individual creditor should meet the threshold, stating that the statute allows for collective action to reach the threshold. The Court dismissed the writ petition challenging the validity of Section 7 and granted the petitioner liberty to pursue other legal remedies against the NCLT's order.
Issues: Validity of Section 7 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 and the order passed by the National Company Law Tribunal, Jaipur Bench against the petitioner.
Analysis: The petitioner challenged the validity of Section 7 of the IBC, which allows for the initiation of corporate insolvency resolution process by financial creditors when a default has occurred. The petitioner argued that the threshold limit for triggering CIRP was increased to Rs. 1 crore from Rs. 1 lakh due to the financial distress caused by the Covid-19 pandemic. The petitioner contended that the joint application by financial creditors should require a minimum default of Rs. 1 crore per individual creditor. However, the respondents opposed this interpretation, stating that the language of Section 7 is unambiguous and allows for joint applications with a total minimum threshold of Rs. 1 crore. The Court noted that the Supreme Court had previously upheld the validity of Section 7 in the Swiss Ribbons case and found no ambiguity in the provision.
The Court emphasized that the purpose of the amendment increasing the threshold limit was to provide smaller financial creditors, including MSMEs, with an efficient remedy under the IBC. The Court held that the statute and the amendment were formulated to allow a group of financial creditors to collectively reach the Rs. 1 crore threshold to initiate CIRP. The Court rejected the petitioner's argument that each individual creditor should meet the threshold, as it would defeat the purpose of allowing joint applications by financial creditors. The Court concluded that the statute admits no other interpretation than allowing joint applications to trigger CIRP.
In light of the above analysis, the Court found no merit in the writ petition challenging the validity of Section 7 of the IBC and dismissed the petition. The petitioner was granted the liberty to pursue appropriate legal remedies against the order passed by the NCLT. The writ petition was dismissed with the mentioned observations.
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