NCLT and NCLAT Hold High Court-Level Contempt Powers; Appellate Tribunal Overrules Adjudicating Authority's Decision on IBC Contempt Jurisdiction.

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....Contempt proceedings - The Tribunal (NCLT) and the Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) have the same ‘jurisdiction’, ‘powers’ and ‘Authority’ in respect of contempt of it as the ‘High Court’ viewed in that perspective, the conclusions arrived at by the Adjudicating Authority (National Company Law Tribunal) in the impugned order by making it clear that the IBC is devoid of contempt of jurisdiction and thereby dismissing the application, leaving it open to the Appellant/Applicant to seek remedy through recourses available, are clearly unsustainable in the eye of Law and the same is interfered with by this ‘Tribunal’ in furtherance substantial cause of justice, sitting in ‘Appellate Jurisdiction’. - AT....