Financial creditor status fails where real estate allottees elect refund remedies instead of maintaining continuing allotment claims.

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....Real estate allottees seeking financial creditor status must establish a subsisting financial debt owed by the corporate debtor. Invoking arbitration for refund, accepting and presenting refund cheques, and pursuing remedies for dishonour constitute an election to seek refund rather than continue with allotment. Such conduct precludes simultaneous reliance on continuing allottee status and the deemed commercial effect of borrowing. The Supreme Court ruling concerning an existing allottee with a RERA decree was distinguished because the allottees had themselves pursued refund remedies. Recognition as financial creditors was therefore unavailable, and dismissal of the company appeals followed.....