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2023 (8) TMI 13
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....pellant was a land owner on which the development project was to be constructed and he had filed the claim before the Resolution Professional which was admitted and he was inducted in the Committee of Creditors however subsequently on an Application filed by the Home-Buyers, impugned Order has been passed removing the Appellant from the Committee of Creditors holding that he is not the financial creditor. 4. Learned Counsel for the Appellant challenging the Order referred to the Development Agreement between the parties that is filed as Annexure A-6. The development agreement which was entered into between the parties on 01st April, 2009 clearly indicates that Appellant is an owner of 11.40 acres agriculture land on which development agree....
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....ission of the Appellant that they are allottees within the meaning of Section 2(d) of RERA Act does not make their transaction as a Financial Debt within the meaning of Section 5(8)(f). It is relevant to notice that RERA Act itself has noticed the definition of 'Promoter' under Section 2(zk). When we look in the real nature of the transaction entered between the Corporate Debtor and the Appellants - Landowners, the landowners were entitled to share the constructed area in the ratio of 45:55 and allotment of flats and commercial units in lieu of their entitlement under the Development Agreement does not make the transaction of allotment a Financial Debt within the meaning of Section 5(8)(f). The Adjudicating Authority in the impugned order h....
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.... any of the methods for raising money or incurring liability by the modes prescribed in sub-clauses (a) to (f) of Section 5(8); it may also include any derivative transaction or counter-indemnity obligation as per sub-clauses (g) and (h) of Section 5(8); and it may also be the amount of any liability in respect of any of the guarantee or indemnity for any of the items referred to in sub-clauses (a) to (h). The requirement of existence of a debt, which is disbursed against the consideration for the time value of money, in our view, remains an essential part even in respect of any of the transactions/dealings stated in subclauses (a) to (i) of Section 5(8), even if it is not necessarily stated therein. In any case, the definition, by its very....