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Issues: (i) Whether the appellant was a necessary party entitled to intervene in the proceedings under Section 95 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016. (ii) Whether the appellant's claimed coparcenary or succession rights in the assets of another guarantor could affect the maintainability of the Section 95 proceedings against the personal guarantor.
Issue (i): Whether the appellant was a necessary party entitled to intervene in the proceedings under Section 95 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016.
Analysis: The proceedings under Section 95 were directed against the personal guarantor who had executed the contract of guarantee. The appellant was not a party to that contract and had not shown any right in the assets that formed the subject matter of the guarantee invoked in those proceedings. Intervention is permissible only where presence of the person is necessary for an effective adjudication, and the creditor's choice of respondent in Section 95 proceedings cannot be displaced by a third party who is outside the guarantee arrangement.
Conclusion: The appellant was not a necessary party and had no right to intervene.
Issue (ii): Whether the appellant's claimed coparcenary or succession rights in the assets of another guarantor could affect the maintainability of the Section 95 proceedings against the personal guarantor.
Analysis: The claimed coparcenary and succession rights related to the estate of another guarantor against whom no Section 95 proceedings had been initiated. Those private rights were already the subject of a separate civil suit and had not been judicially determined in the insolvency proceedings. Section 95 proceedings do not adjudicate disputed private succession or partition claims, and the liability of the personal guarantor is governed by the terms of the guarantee contract to which the appellant is not a signatory.
Conclusion: The appellant's claimed coparcenary or succession rights did not affect the maintainability of the Section 95 proceedings.
Final Conclusion: The challenge to rejection of intervention and allied reliefs failed, and the appeals were liable to be dismissed.
Ratio Decidendi: A third party who is not a signatory to the guarantee and whose asserted succession or coparcenary claims arise from separate, undetermined private rights cannot be impleaded as a necessary party in proceedings under Section 95 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, which are confined to the personal guarantor and the terms of the guarantee contract.