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2019 (2) TMI 1352

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...., Sr. Advocate, Mr Karl Tamboly Adv., Mr Rahul Lakhani Adv., Ms Prachi Dave Adv., Mr Bankim Gangar Adv., i/b Dhaval Vussonjji & Associates For The Titagarh Wagons Ltd : Mr. Rajesh Kumar Chaudhary Adv. a/w Mr. Rajendra Mishra Adv., Ms. Kalyani Sharma Adv. For The BESI Marine Systems : Mr Rohit Gupta Adv., a/w Anagh Pradhan Adv., i/b Divya Shah Associates. For The CGST Commissionerate : Mr. Raguram K., IRS, The Deputy Commissioner, CGST & Central Excise and Mr Jamna Prasad Sharma, Asst. Commissioner of Customs. For The Employees, Workers, Contractor and Consultant : Adv. Jai Prakash Pawar, Mr Nimay Dare, Mr Prashant Bare. Mr. Manoj Mishra Adv., Zain Mookhi Adv., Arshil Shah Adv. Ms. Rashi Agrawal Adv. i/b Manilal Kher Ambalal & Co. ORDER Per V. P. Singh, Member (Judicial) And Ravikumar Duraisamy, Member (Technical) 1. The MA No. 170 is filed by the RP seeking approval of the Resolution Plan submitted by Edelweiss Asset Reconstruction Co. Ltd (EARC) duly approved by the CoC by a vote share of 94.3 %. 2. Initially, the Company Petition No. 292/2017 was filed under section 7 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 ("IBC") by Edelweiss Asset Reconstruction Com....

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.... 400 crs at 10% interest to be paid at the end of 3 years. *   INR 600 crs will continue as an unsustainable loan with 0.01% interest repayable after ten years as bullet repayment *   INR 1000 crs debt at 0.01% interest would continue as convertible debt (option with RA) against which instrument may be issued at a later date - any unconverted portion of this would be repaid after 15 years. *   Payment to ECL finance (priority loan included in total o/s) to be over and above this amount. *   Equity to be issued to lenders in a manner that on a fully diluted basis all lender's hold 90% equity in the Company in proportion to their o/s. *   As against this the liquidation value due to financial creditors is INR 497 crs. Pg. 74, 75 and 69 (equity structure on a fully diluted basis) and 59 (liquidation value) There is an error in this amount - liquidation value is INR 497 Crores. 4. Payment towards Workmen dues with O/S ~INR 5 crs (for last 24 months) and ~ INR 4 crs (for more than 24 months) *   Payment of INR 5 cr's total to Workmen towards their dues. *   Liquidation valu....

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.... identified for scrap. *   Professional Board will be set up to run the Company operations. The Company is proposed to be Professionally Managed Company as compared to a Promoter Managed Company. *   A Governance committee will be set up for the day-to-day review of operations. It will consist of an expert nominated by the Board and two by lenders. *   A Monitoring agency will also be set up to oversee implementation of the plan. Page 72, 73, 97, 62, 98, 111,82 9. Capital Structure of the Company *   Current capital structures are ~ 5 crs. shares of Face Value INR 10 each with ~40% promoter holding. *   Since the net worth of the Company is completely eroded and the share does not have any book value, share capital will be written down in 2 rounds to ~ five lakhs share of FV INR 10 each. *   The holding of the Promoters will be written down, and the new capital structure will have 68% held by Lenders, 10% by GOI, 20% for employee trust and balance 2% by Public Holding. *   The Company will comply with SEBI guidelines at all times. *   Further, the lenders will ha....

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....the Corporate Debtor along with the suspended directors of the Corporate Debtor. This application has challenged the process of approving the resolution plan by the CoC and has raised objections against the resolution plan approved by the CoC. The relief sought in this application is to direct RP to disclose the details of all resolution plans received, to disclose reasons for which the expression of interest received from other applicants was rejected and the concluded CIRP be set aside. It shall be noted that during a hearing of this Petition, the counsel appearing for the applicants in this application has submitted that he does not wish to press for the reliefs in this IA 21/2018. 8. The MA no. 489/2018 is filed by ARCS Ship Build Services (P) Ltd., which is one of the unsuccessful resolution applicants. This application has challenged the defects in the process of calling for resolution plans, lack of provisions of information provided for the preparation of resolution plan. The relief sought in the application is, among other things, to make the ARCS Ship Build Services (P) Ltd. a party to the proceedings and to provide a copy of the final resolution plan. 9. The MA no ....

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.... suspended board of directors as contemplated u/s 24, IBC read with Regulation 19 and Regulation 21 of the CIRP Regulations as notices for meetings were not sent at least seven days in advance. Further, since the relevant documents about the discussions of the CoC meetings were not provided to the suspended board of directors, they were not able to participate effectively in the meetings. Also, in some of the CoC meetings, the suspended Board of Directors were asked to leave the meeting half way through. Further, minutes of the CoC meetings were not circulated to the suspended board. (b) RP failed to circulate the agenda for the 2nd CoC meeting, 5th CoC meeting. (c) Applicant No. 2 namely, Mr Prakash Chandra Kapoor was asked to the excuse himself before the meeting before the discussion on the "Presentation Deck". (d) The expression of interests received by the RP was not disclosed to the suspended board. (e) RP has been acting collusively with the Resolution Applicant (RA) EARC as Mr Vijay Pasupathy, who has been present at the meetings of the CoC, is, in fact, part of the team of E & Y, EARC approached that prior to Insolvency Commencement Date....

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....3), IBC specifically says that all compliant resolution plans are to be represented by a resolution professional to the CoC for approval and not to all participants in the CoC meetings. It is further stated that E & Y was engaged in by EARC by a service agreement to undertake a background study of the CD before the initiation of the CIRP and later RP was appointed by this Bench. Further, the applicants were marked in the impugned emails which demonstrate that they knew the contents of such emails. The discussions were conducted so that the CIRP can be carried out in a transparent and effective manner and a manner beneficial for all stakeholders. 18. Rejoinder filed by suspended Board of Directors to MA 584/2018 states that their objections of the suspended board were not recorded. It also states that RP has delegated his duties under the CIRP to one Mr Dinkar Subramaniam by way of a power of attorney. Subsequently, Mr Dinkar Subramaniam has been exercising the powers of the Resolution Professional under the Code, which violates Regulation 3(3) of the CIRP Regulations, as he is a partner of E&Y. It has also been contended that the CD is an indirect shareholder of Great Offshore L....

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....RP costs of Rs.Thirty-five crores, approximately ten crores have been incurred towards the professional fees of the RP and his firm/ group. The duties of RP are of personal nature and cannot be imposed on his firm or its employees, and hence RP illegally delegated its authority to Mr Dinkar Subramaniam. Further, it is evident that E&Y has been directly/indirectly managing and conducting the CIRP and has done so in a manner to favour EARC and EY itself. Mr Dinkar Subramaniam who is reflected as a partner of E&Y Restructuring LLP as per the records of the IBBI admittedly has been is a partner at E&Y LLP. Even after the initiation of CIRP, E&Y has been appointed as the investment banker by the CoC. 21. MA 334/2018 has been filed by the Contractors of the Corporate Debtor u/s 60(5) of the IBC read with the Rule 11 of the NCLT Rules, 2016. They have, inter-alia, prayed that (a) RP be directed to disclose on oath the details of Resolution Plans received from the potential Resolution Applicants pursuant to the Advertisement by the Interim Resolution Professional; to disclose on oath the reasons in detail for rejection of EOIs from the Potential Resolution Applicants; the concluded CIRP....

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....f the IBC which states that a resolution applicant shall not have a right to vote at the meeting of the CoC ,unless such resolution applicant is also a financial creditor. 25. MA 463/2018 is filed by an employee of the Corporate Debtor namely Mr Jayanta Bhattacherjee, who is the constituted attorney of 206 employees and 13 consultants of the Corporate Debtor under Section 60 of IBC. The prayers, inter-alia, are to pay employees and consultants their outstanding salaries and dues of time period before the commencement of CIRP, to give representation to the employees and consultants in the CoC and allow their representative to take part in the meetings of CoC, reinstate the employees who have been terminated by the RP without following the due process of law. 26. In its reply to MA 463/2018, the RP has stated that this application is not maintainable and the relief sought cannot be granted as the same is contrary to and ultra vires the provisions of IBC. Further, the RP states that the present application has been filed to delay the grant to the approval of the resolution plan. The RP has stated that since in the present case the total debt of the Corporate Debtor is Rupees Ele....

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....vided by the Resolution Applicant to conclude that a contract is onerous or not in tandem with the operational requirements. (i) The plan proposes to liquidate the various shell companies formed by the erstwhile management. For these shell companies, the primary asset and liability are loans to and from the Company and other related parties of the Company. (j) The plan proposes to liquidate the shell companies and transfer to itself shares in a company known as Tebma Shipyard which is held by Nirupam Energy Projects Pvt. Ltd. (k) The plan seeks that its approval by the Bench will be considered a deemed approval for the process of changes in capital structure, for all compliances under the Companies Act and SEBI Regulations. A similar prayer is made in respect of a preferential allotment. (l) Though the plan proceeds on the basis that it aims to continue the operations as a going concern, but it has failed to demonstrate the manner in which the same is proposed to be achieved. (m) The plan is contrary to basic tenets of the maximisation of value as envisaged in the IBC and the protection of the interest of all the stakeholders. (....

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....e fee charged by IRP/RP and his team of few people even though the company has a huge workforce. It is noted that monthly fee charged by RP and his team is approx. Rs. 80 lakhs whereas monthly salary bill of around 850 employees is approx. Rs. 1.5crores, which indicates a huge fee to RP and his team. As per the Resolution Plan submitted by EARC, the CIRP cost projected was Rs. 35 crores, whereas as per his submissions, the CIRP cost is approximately Rs. 62 crores as of August 2018. During the hearing held on 10.09.2018 on a query raised by the Bench, it was informed that CIRP cost upto August 2018 was Rs. 62crores. 32. Section 30(2)(b) of the Code provides for the payment of debts of the Operational Creditors in such manner as may be specified by the Board which shall not be less than the amount to be paid to the Operational Creditors in the event of liquidation of the Corporate Debtor under Section 53. In the resolution plan, Operational Creditors' admitted dues are Rs. 187 crores whereas the resolution plan proposes the payment of Rs. 9 crores to the Operational Creditors, i.e. 4.81% of their admitted dues. It is further stated in the plan that the payment to the Operation....

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....ent, the other type of credit will disappear from the market. This will be against the objective of promoting availability of credit. v. The I&B Code aims to balance the interests of all stakeholders and does not maximise value for 'Financial Creditors'. vi. Therefore, the dues of creditors of 'Operational Creditors' must get at least similar treatment as compared to the due to 'Financial Creditors'." 34. The Resolution Professional has stated that liquidation value due to the Operational Creditors is NIL.However, resolution plan proposed Rs. 9 crores payment to the Operational Creditors against the admitted due of Rs. 187 crores. 35. In the proposed resolution plan, Financial Creditors' admitted dues are Rs. 11,373.40 crores, out of that, Financial Creditors are getting Rs. 1,124 crores in a phased manner as detailed in Section 5D(1) of the plan which is as follows: (i) Secured and Unsecured Financial Creditors having admitted dues of Rs. 11,373.40 crores as on 06.06.2017 shall be paid as follows: (a) As mentioned in Section 5A of this plan, the debt of Rs. 93 crores would be converted into equity; (b) ....

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....ill get Rs. 10 crores as given in Schedule 3 of the Plan or Rs. 9 crores as mentioned at page 77 of the plan. 38. It is important to point out that Resolution Applicant is a financial creditor having 82.7% voting share in the Committee of Creditors and the total outstanding amount admitted to financial creditors is Rs. 11,373 Crores, and workmen dues, employees claims, statutory claims, other claims are Rs. 1,136 Crores. Thus, the total admitted claim is Rs. 12,509 Crores. 39. Statutory dues to Government of India/other authorities is about Rs. 270 Crores, and advances received from Customers is Rs. 600crores out of which the Government Departments paid Rs. 148crores Rs. 116 Crores from Coast Guard, Rs. 32 Crores from Indian Navy). We have observed that despite the company having received a huge amount of Rs. 600 crores as an advance, the Resolution Plan does not propose even a single Rupee to be repaid to these customers who have paid Rs. 600 crores. We are of the considered view that Nil amount proposed to be paid to them in the resolution plan, is not a genuine proposal, especially when the Government Departments have already paid about Rs. 148 Crores. 40. Further, no p....

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....17     4. Sale of Andheri office 29     5. Sale of Scrap 11 11   6. The release of BG Margin Money for executed vessels   3 6 7. Sale of land at Alibaug   10   8. Settlement of RGPPL   1   9. Other inflows (A) 117 25 6 10. Inflow from Operations (B) 88 185 214   Total Inflows (A) +(B) 206 211 220 46. On a close scrutiny of the Resolution Plan of EARC, it appears that the plan provides for generation of income from its ongoing operations, from the existing liquid investment, existing cash balance, release of margin money, receipt from debtors, sale of Kolkata Yard, sale of Andheri Office & other identified assets, sale of scrap, sale of land etc. and no upfront money is brought in by the Resolution Applicant. 47. It is provided in the plan that after approval of the plan, the company seeks to cancel the Defence order and further relief has been sought regarding the release of margin money and Bank Guarantee in favour of the company. Resolution Applicant is not infusing any cash in the company, but R....

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.... the company from liquidation, EARC, as lead lender is proposing a plan by way of which lenders will hold majority equity in the company, will run the operations of the company with the help of professional management team and over a period endeavour to find a suitable investor/buyer for the same. This will also allow them time to rectify several imprudent transactions entered into by the erstwhile management and thus, enhance the value of the company which would be a better option than the piecemeal sale of such a valuable asset in liquidation." 52. Hon'ble NCLAT in Binani Industries case supra has held that: "the IB Code defines resolution plan as a plan for insolvency resolution of the Corporate Debtor as a going concern. ..... It is not a sale. No one is selling or buying the "Corporate Debtor" through a resolution plan. It is a resolution of the Corporate Debtor as a going concern. One does not need a resolution plan for selling the Corporate Debtor. If it were a sale, one can put it on a trading platform. Whosoever pays the highest price would get it. There is no need of voting or application of mind for approving resolution plan, as it will be sold at the hig....

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....f Binani Industries Ltd. (supra). 54. The resolution plan mentions that the lenders intend to keep the company as a going concern to improve recovery and preserve national asset. The plan as submitted by the lead lender is to operate this company by placing professional management and sell to an investor in the next three years. It further states that the lenders should not be termed as promotors of the company at any point. It is further stated in the statement of purpose of the resolution plan that the CoC believes that the business unit has the potential of revival. It is stated in the plan that EARC as the lead lender is proposing a plan by way of which lenders will hold majority equity in the company, will run the operations of the company with the help of professional management team and over a period endeavour to find a suitable investor/buyer for the same. It is requested to this Tribunal and other authorities, in the resolution plan, to support in bringing the erstwhile promotors to the task, make good the imprudent transactions and allow financial creditors to run the company with the help of a professional management team till they find an investor for the company. ....

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....ovisions of other laws. 58. The plan states that as on effective date all the existing contracts with employees/workmen/consultants shall be deemed to be cancelled. The company would enter into new contract/workman revised terms which are proposed to be retained as per the operational requirements of the company. Permission of this Tribunal is sought to cancel such contract after approval of the Plan. It is further stated in the plan that such permission would be deemed dispensation with the requirement of labour laws, and they would have no claims against the company or the Resolution Applicant. 59. The resolution plan proposes to "right size" the current workmen, employees and consultants employed/appointed by the company. For this, the plan proposes to first cancel all the existing contracts with the employees/workmen/consultants and extinguishing the rights of employees/workmen/consultants to raise claims against the company without complying with the requirement of labour laws and this the resolution plan proposes to do by order of this Tribunal. The company would then enter into new contracts with employees/workmen, that is proposed to be retained, on revised terms as p....

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....res by RBSA whereas other two valuers have assigned Nil value. 61. Further, a stock which is current assets of the Corporate Debtor was valued at Rs. 221 crores by RBSA whereas the same was valued at just Rs. 8 crores by D & P and Rs. 126 crores by TRC. Again work-in-progress which is current assets was valued at Rs. 290 crores by RBSA whereas D & P valued the same at Rs. 205 crores and TRC valued at Rs. 201 crores. Another important component of current assets, i.e. Cash and cash equivalent was valued at Rs. 114 crores by RBSA whereas the same was valued at only Rs. 46 crores by both D & P and TRC. It is quite interesting to observe that TRC has not assigned even a single rupee for "Security Against Borrowings" and the book value of the same was Rs. 59.02 crores as on 31.03.2017. D & P have also not assigned any value towards the same and noted that these deposits should be considered unrealizable, and their recoverable value has been considered as zero. 62. It may be noted that the Resolution Professional has issued advertisement inviting Expression of Interest in Economic Times, Delhi & Mumbai editions, on 04.09.2017 and 11.01.2018. The corporate debtor is one of the large....

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.... which have not yet initiated but might arise out of any transaction/contracts/commitments entered before the effective date. The resolution plan further reserves the corporate debtor's rights to recover any amount becoming due and payable to it under any arbitration case. 66. The unsuccessful bidders/resolution applicants submitted, during various hearings, that the current resolution plan approved by the CoC is nothing but the plan submitted by EARC, which is the major financial creditor having 82.5% of vote share in the CoC/total outstanding financial debt, therefore, the plan is hit by conflict of interest and should be rejected. The suspended directors also raised the issue of conflict of interest of the Resolution Professional with E&Y, the resolution Professional being partner of E&Y; the same E&Y provided support services. Further, the other Resolution Applicants also argued that the liquidation value and the plan submitted by EARC is substantially lower when compared to the intrinsic/market value of the company considering the projects/orders on hand, the sector to which it caters as stated above. 67. The CoC approved the Resolution Plan of EARC who is the major ....

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....o this Tribunal that all the 100% Subsidiary companies created by the erstwhile management be dissolved. The Resolution Applicant has not provided sufficient facts, the justification for this prayer, therefore, we are not inclined to accede to this prayer. 73. From the records, it is observed that RP is the partner of E&Y. E&Y was engaged by EARC, i.e. the Resolution Applicant by way of a service agreement. RP admitted that E&Y provided support services to him during the CIRP. Further RP has delegated his authority and duties to one Mr. Dinkar Venkatsubramaniam by a Power of Attorney. The said Mr. Dinkar Venkatsubramaniam was also a partner of E&Y restructuring LLP. 74. Further E&Y was given the mandate of investment banker for the Corporate Debtor to find investors. From the records submitted by the parties, it is noted that the disciplinary committee of IBBI after issuing Show Cause Notice and an opportunity of hearing, imposed a monetary penalty of Rs. 1lakh on Mr. Dinkar Venkatsubramaniam vide order dated 23.08.2018 in another Insolvency matter of JEKPL Pvt. Ltd. In spite of disciplinary proceedings initiated by IBBI, RP has delegated his power to the said Mr. Dinkar Venk....

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....current or contingent due to outside parties to be waived off. The bench is of the considered view that the prayer is misconceived as the subsidiary/associate companies are separate legal entities and they are outside the preview of current CIRP of the corporate debtor, i.e. Bharti Defence and Infrastructure Ltd. 79. The plan seeks various waivers, to transfer the land to the Corporate Debtor at no cost, non repayment of advances received, continuation of existing Defence Warship Licence, no liability on the company or the Resolution Applicant for cancellation of contracts, corporate guarantee provided by the company on any pending and ongoing litigation/legal proceedings including winding-up petitions against or by the Company, all such dues have been reduced to Nil as per the plan. After approval of the resolution plan in case of any liability arising out of current pending disputes, consequent to any judicial pronouncement neither the company nor the RA shall be liable for such claim. Further, it is also proposed that any action against the company and the cases should not be allowed and earlier management should be held responsible for the same and proceed against but not ag....

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....eas for a handful of employees of a team of RP was paid approx. Rs. 75 lakhs per month which we feel, that there is no transparency and adequacy of the fees paid to the team of RP and legal fees. 83. The number of employees and workmen are 896, and their monthly bill is Rs. 1.55 Crores which works out to an average of Rs. 17,250 whereas the average fee paid to the other professionals/team of RP engaged works out to approximately Rs. 7.5 lakhs per month. We have also observed that the amount of Rs. 9,07,16,025 was paid towards other expenses from 06.07.2017 to 30.06.2018, details for the same are not provided. Fee payable to the RP was Rs. 37.48lakhs and cost of insurance for RP was Rs. 33.80lakhs, from the details submitted by the RP it is noticed that an amount of Rs. 5,58,48,283 was paid towards fee to legal professionals, fee payable to any other professionals, fee payable to other professionals, other expenses etc. and the same works out to Rs. 42,96,020 per month. This amount is exclusive of fee payable to RP of Rs. 40,78,320 and Rs. 57 lakhs fee payable to all three registered valuers. 84. Upon perusal, the resolution plan submitted by the successful resolution applican....

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....mpany and try to add value to it for three years or so and then sell the same to an interested investor. This, in essence, is what was supposed to be done within the stipulated time for CIRP. The resolution applicant through its resolution plan is, in effect trying to extend the stipulated period beyond the law to find an investor for the Corporate Debtor. This, in our view, was not what was intended by the legislature. Moreover, the resolution plan is not to buy and selling of the Corporate Debtor as has been held in Binani Industries Ltd. (supra) by the Hon'ble NCLAT. Considering all the aspects as mentioned above, the resolution plan deserves to be Rejected. It also appears that resolution plan envisages sale of the corporate debtor after value addition. Considering the nature of business, having Defence Warship Manufacturing License, and fact that the asset is of great national importance and the company provides employment to more than 800 people and has been building ships for the Indian Coast Guard & Ministry of Defence, we also agree that scrap sale during liquidation will be loss to nation, the public and its creditors. If the ultimate object in the resolution plan is ....

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....e, and the counsels who have vociferously argued for the above two unsuccessful bidders did not even turn up during the subsequent hearings which proved their malafide intention, to drag on the matter. When they could not fulfil even the basic/minimum criteria of bringing in Earnest Money Deposit amount of Rs. 10 crores. ARCS Ship Build Services Pvt Ltd have not complied with the order dated 12.09.2018, and other unsuccessful bidders namely Ricky Nathaniel and Perfect Industries Group Holding Ltd have not appeared. Mr Joshi Ld. Senior Counsel informed the Tribunal that the RP received a letter dated September 27, 2018, from Perfect Industries claiming that it had deposited a bank draft of INR 10 crore as Earnest Money Deposit with the Tribunal. The Tribunal stated that it had not received the Earnest Money Deposit of INR 10 crore from Perfect Industries and as such questioned the authenticity of the letter dated September 27, 2018; 93. Subsequently, during the hearing held on 25.09.2018, another unsuccessful bidder, namely Geotech Investment and Holding LLC (Geotech) has come forward and submitted a letter expressing its interest to submit a revised Resolution Plan and proposed ....

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....ch would levy a cost on them which was agreed by the un successful bidders, but all the three bidders failed to bring in even a single rupee in spite of providing various opportunities which has substantially delayed the entire CIRP. Therefore, the Bench has taken a serious view of the misconduct, non-compliance of the assurances/commitments given by the unsuccessful bidders, not genuine in their assurance, malafide intentions; we are forced to levy a cost. Accordingly, we impose a cost of Rs. 20 lakhs on each of the three un-successful bidders namely ARCS Ship Build Services Pvt Ltd., Mr Ricky Nathanial and Geotech Investment and Holding LLC as provided under Section 235A of the IBC, 2016 and the cost has to be paid within a period of two weeks from the date of receipt of copy of this order. We further direct that 50% of the cost to be paid into the account of the Corporate Debtor and the same shall be utilized towards payment to employees/workmen and the balance 50% is to be paid into the account of "Prime Minister's National Relief Fund". 98. To develop a robust Insolvency Eco System wherein the role of Genuine Resolution Applicant is also very important and at the same t....

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....the liquidator as prescribed under Chapter- III of IBC, 2016 and the relevant regulations of IBBI. 105. The Designated Registrar is directed to send a copy of this order, to RoC under which this Company is registered. 106. All powers of the Board of Directors, key managerial persons and the partners of the Corporate Debtor shall cease to affect and at this moment vest in the Liquidator. The personnel of the Corporate Debtor are directed to extend all co-operation to the Liquidator as may be required by him in managing the affairs of the Corporate Debtor. The Insolvency Professional appointed as Liquidator will charge fees for conduct of the liquidation proceedings in proportion to the value of the liquidation estate assets as specified under Regulation 4 of Insolvency and Bankruptcy (Liquidation Process) Regulations, 2016 and the same shall be paid to the Liquidator from the proceeds of the liquidation estate under Section 53 of the Code. 107. This liquidation order shall be deemed to be notice of discharge to the officers, employees and workmen of the Corporate Debtor, except to the extent of the business of the Corporate Debtor is continued during the liquidation process....