Interim moratorium exclusion applies to pending personal-guarantor insolvency applications, preventing its use to bar recovery suits.

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....Section 96(4) of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code applies retroactively to pending insolvency applications involving personal guarantors to corporate debtors. The exclusion removes the pre-admission interim moratorium that could otherwise delay recovery proceedings; it affects pending transactions rather than completed transactions. The phrase "is filed" includes applications filed before the amendment's commencement but still pending thereafter. Consequently, the personal guarantor could not rely on an interim moratorium to bar the suit, and the request to reject the plaint on that basis was dismissed.....