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Issues: (i) Whether the interim moratorium under Section 96 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 stayed proceedings for making absolute the attachment of properties under the Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors (In Financial Establishments) Act, 1999; (ii) Whether the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 overrides the Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors (In Financial Establishments) Act, 1999 on the ground of repugnancy.
Issue (i): Whether the interim moratorium under Section 96 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 stayed proceedings for making absolute the attachment of properties under the Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors (In Financial Establishments) Act, 1999.
Analysis: The attachment proceedings under the MPID Act were held to be aimed at protecting depositors and not at securing a debt owed by the appellants to the State. In the absence of a debtor-creditor relationship, the property attached under the MPID Act could not be treated as a debt for the purposes of Section 96 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016. The interim moratorium therefore did not apply to the MPID proceedings.
Conclusion: The moratorium under Section 96 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 did not stay the MPID attachment proceedings.
Issue (ii): Whether the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 overrides the Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors (In Financial Establishments) Act, 1999 on the ground of repugnancy.
Analysis: The two enactments operate in distinct legislative fields. The MPID Act falls within the State List, while the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 operates in the Concurrent List. Repugnancy under Article 254(1) of the Constitution of India arises only where both laws occupy the Concurrent List and are inconsistent. Since the statutes operate in different spheres, Section 238 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 did not displace the MPID Act.
Conclusion: The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 does not override the Maharashtra Protection of Interest of Depositors (In Financial Establishments) Act, 1999 on the ground of repugnancy.
Final Conclusion: The appeals failed because the requested stay of MPID attachment proceedings under the insolvency moratorium was legally unavailable, and the State enactment continued to operate unaffected by the insolvency law.
Ratio Decidendi: A statutory moratorium under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code does not apply to MPID attachment proceedings absent a debt-based debtor-creditor relationship, and no repugnancy arises where the two enactments operate in different legislative fields.
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