2025 (3) TMI 130

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....State Bank of India seeking to challenge the order passed by the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), Chennai dated 04.10.2023 by which the Appellate Tribunal dismissed the appeal filed by the State Bank of India and thereby affirmed the order passed by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), Hyderabad. 2. The facts giving rise to this appeal may be summarized as under : - i) In February, 2020, the Bank filed an application under Section 7 of the IBC before the NCLT. ii) In November, 2021, the respondent - herein India Power Corporation Limited (IPCL) filed its counter affidavit before the NCLT. iii) On 13.06.2022, the State Bank of India filed its rejoinder affidavit. However, in filing the rejoinder affidavit, there w....

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.... the respondent, with an advance copy to be served upon the respondent." 7. The learned Solicitor General of India invited the attention of this Court to a decision in Dena Bank vs. C. Shivakumar Reddy and Another (2021) 10 SCC 330, wherein this Court has taken the view that in the absence of any express provision which prohibits or sets a time-line for filing of additional documents, there is no bar to the filing of documents over and above those documents initially filed with Section 7 petition. The Court further clarified that it is permissible to file any document until a final order either admitting or dismissing the Section 7 application is passed. The relevant part of the said decision of this Court reads thus:- "71. Since a fina....