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2022 (9) TMI 949 - Tri - Insolvency and BankruptcyMaintainability of petition - initiation of CIRP - Corporate Debtor failed to make repayment of its dues - Operational Creditors - existence of debt and dispute or not - Service of demand notice - HELD THAT:- A perusal of Part IV of the Form V, reveals that the Operational Creditor has submitted that the Corporate Debtor has made payments for invoices ranging from 05.01.2018 till 03.04.2019. However, the amount claimed by the Operational Creditor is for 11 invoices ranging from 27.02.2018 to 23.04.2018. Further, the date of default mentioned by the Operational Creditor on page 9 of the petition is 05.03.2018 which is for default relating to an invoice dated 26.02.2019 i.e. a future date. Further, the said invoice dated 26.02.2019 has not been put on record. Therefore, the instant petition is an incomplete one. Also, keeping in mind that the date of default is 05.03.2018, a perusal of Annexure E of the Reply Affidavit shows that various payments have been made by the Corporate Debtor to the Operational Creditor on 27.03.2018, 06.04.2018, 07.04.2018, 20.04.2018 and so on. As such, the date being 05.03.2018 cannot be considered as date of default and therefore the instant petition is defective in nature. Service of demand notice by email - HELD THAT:- This Adjudicating Authority is satisfied that since the mentioned email id is registered with the ROC as the email-id of the company, the service of the demand notice to the said email id is valid. As such, the demand notice was successfully delivered to the Corporate Debtor and no reply was given by it. Pre-existing dispute or not - HELD THAT:- The fact that no reply to the demand notice was issued by the Corporate Debtor, would not prevent the Corporate Debtor from bringing on record facts to establish pre-existing disputes relating to the instant petition - it can be seen that the dispute relating to the weight of the reels supplied was first raised by the Corporate Debtor vide letter dated 01.10.2018 i.e. much prior to the issuance of the demand letter by the Operational Creditor on 02.09.2019. the said dispute has also been acknowledged by the Operational Creditor vide email dated 01.10.2018. Without going into the merits of the said disputes, this adjudicating authority is satisfied that there are pre-existing disputes in the instant petition. The pre-existing disputes in the instant case are not mere feeble arguments, instead they are backed by evidence. As such, in presence of pre-existing disputes, the instant petition is not maintainable - this Adjudicating Authority is satisfied that the instant petition is liable to be rejected - Petition dismissed.
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