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2018 (12) TMI 1126 - AT - Insolvency and BankruptcyCorporate Insolvency Resolution Process - whether the Adjudicating Authority can entertain or reject an application under Section 7 of the ‘I&B Code’ on the ground of “usurious and extortionate penal interest”? - Held that:- From the ‘I&B Code’, it will be evident that the ‘Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process’ is not a litigation and are not decided by Court of Law. Now, the ‘Adjudicating Authority’ deals with the matter of insolvency, which in its first stage is required to take steps for ‘resolution’ of the ‘Corporate Debtor’. Therefore, the Adjudicating Authority being not a Court of law and as the Adjudicating Authority do not decide a money claim or suit, it cannot exercise any of the power vested under Sections 3 or 4 of the ‘Usurious Loans Act, 1918’. ‘The Presidency- Towns Insolvency Act, 1909’ having repealed, and there being a bar of jurisdiction under Section 231 of the ‘I&B Code’ as no civil court have jurisdiction in respect of any matter in which the Adjudicating Authority is empowered to decide under the Code, we hold that the provisions of Sections 3 & 4 of the ‘Usurious Loans Act, 1918’ are not applicable to any of the proceeding under Section 7 or 9 of the ‘I&B Code’. Further, as initiation of ‘Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process’ under Sections 7 or 9 do not amount to recovery proceedings, the question of deciding the claim, which may include the interest by the Adjudicating Authority does not arise for the purpose of triggering the ‘Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process’. If the application is complete and the Adjudicating Authority is satisfied that there is a debt due to the ‘Financial Creditor’ and there is a default on the part of the ‘Corporate Debtor’, it has no other option but to admit the application in absence of any other infirmity. For the reasons aforesaid, no interference is called for against the order(s) of admission which are under challenge
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