Pre-existing operational-debt disputes prevent insolvency proceedings from determining contested transactions, sustaining rejection of the creditor's initiation application.

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....Pre-existing disputes concerning the genuineness of purchase orders, supplies and underlying operational-debt transactions prevent corporate insolvency resolution proceedings from being used to determine contested claims. Information Utility records marked the debt as disputed, while the corporate debtor's legal notice and fraud-related complaints pre-dated the demand notice. As the dispute was neither spurious nor illusory and required detailed trial, a Section 9 application was not maintainable for adjudicating it. Rejection of the operational creditor's insolvency application was therefore sustained, and the appeal was dismissed.....