Priority of electricity dues questioned as insolvency rules may alter creditor ranking during corporate liquidation.
The central issue is whether electricity dues constitute a security interest that makes the supplier a secured creditor with a first charge on assets, or whether such dues are operational/governmental claims subordinated by the IBC waterfall; this turns on registration and formal requirements for security interests and on reconciling the Electricity Act's recovery regime with the IBC's overriding, comprehensive insolvency priority scheme.