Provisional attachment requires a real risk of alienation; existing restraints and NCLT proceedings defeated that basis.

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....Provisional attachment of mortgaged property requires a likelihood that the person concerned will deal with or alienate it so as to frustrate confiscation proceedings. A pre-existing interim restraint against creating third-party rights, followed by admission of proceedings before the NCLT, negated that apprehension. The order confirming the provisional attachment was set aside, while the property remained subject to the final outcome of the NCLT proceedings.....