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2022 (9) TMI 909 - AT - Insolvency and BankruptcyMaintainability of application - initiation of CIRP - Corporate Debtor failed to make repayment of its dues - initiation of proceedings under Sections 13 and 14 of the SARFAESI Act under which possession of property was handed over - Financial Creditors - existence of debt and dispute or not - HELD THAT:- The Appellant in application has given the details of events from 19.06.2015 to March, 2020 and has given details of the Deed of Mortgage entered by Corporate Debtor to secure the loan granted to the sister concern. Details of SARFAESI proceedings initiated against borrower as well as complaint filed under Maharashtra RERA Act was referred to. Details of the order passed by MRERA dated 04.05.2018 and other details were given. The application filed by the Appellant was an application under Section 60(5) of the Code r/w Rule 11 of NCLT Rules, 2016 and under Section 65 of the Code seeking appropriate directions. The Appellant/ Applicant has come up in the application as an assignee of the Financial Creditor to whom the subject property is mortgaged and possession has already been taken under Section 13(4) of SARFAESI Act much before the filing of Section 7 application. Application also notice in detail the proceedings initiated against the Corporate Debtor prior to the application under Section 7 and allegations have been made in the application that the application has been filed fraudulently and maliciously to save the Corporate Debtor. Allegations made in the application are the allegations which are made in reference to Section 65 of the Code. The application by the Appellant was competent application filed under Section 60(5) of the Code r/w Rule 11 of NCLT Rules, 2016 and under Section 65 of the Code and the Adjudicating Authority was obliged to look into the allegations to find out if there is any ground to grant any of the prayers made in the application. The finding of the Adjudicating Authority that the Appellant has no locus cannot be sustained. When the Appellant claims to be the Financial Creditor who is assignee of the Financial Creditor and the application records sequence of events and various proceedings prior to the application under Section 7, the allegations ought to have been looked into and could not have been brushed aside by observing that the applicant has no locus. Appeal allowed.
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