SVLDRS - simultaneou adjudication of SCN proceedings - In...

SVLDRS - simultaneou adjudication of SCN proceedings - In absence of any statutory risk to the adjudication proceedings being hit by any rule of limitation, those proceedings should necessarily have been kept in abeyance till the conclusion of the proceedings under the Scheme. We cannot contemplate, what useful purpose could be served by continuing and concluding the adjudication proceeding during the pendency of the proceedings arising upon filing of the (first) declaration on SVLDRS-1, under the Scheme, on 30.10.2019. In fact, by their conduct the authorities under the Act could not have defeated the object of an otherwise valid proceedings under the Scheme. - HC

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