Invocation of guarantee: Form B demand notice does not substitute prior invocation; no default absent prior invocation, petition set aside.

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....NCLAT addressed whether a demand notice in Form B under Rule 7(1) of the Personal Guarantor Rules, 2019, can itself constitute invocation of a guarantee for purposes of filing under Section 95 of the Code. The Tribunal held that a guarantor is a debtor who is a personal guarantor to the corporate debtor and that the financial creditor must invoke the guarantee prior to issuing a Form B demand; a pre-existing default by the guarantor must exist at the time of that notice. Absence of prior invocation meant no default and the adjudicating authority's admission was set aside.....