Dispute Over CIRP Initiation: Transaction Lacks Financial Debt Characteristics Under Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code.

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....Initiation of CIRP u/s 7 - financial debt in terms of IBC or not - The terms and conditions of the Agreement between the Appellant and the Respondent makes it clear that the Appellant was a collaborator and not a financial creditor. There was no disbursement for time value of money by the Appellant within meaning of Section 5(8) of IBC. The Adjudicating Authority has correctly adverted to the real nature of the transaction between the parties to hold that the same cannot become the basis of filing a Section 7 application. - AT....