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2020 (3) TMI 762 - Tri - Insolvency and BankruptcyMaintainability of application - initiation of CIRP - Corporate Debtor failed to make repayment of its debt - existence of debt and dispute or not - section 9 of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 read with Rule 6 of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy (Application to Adjudicating Authority) Rules, 2016 - HELD THAT:- It is pertinent to note that the Applicant has placed on record all the invoices, stating that the Respondent itself had acknowledged the said invoices. Once the debt is shown as due, it is for Respondent to prove that there are no outstanding dues to be paid to the Applicant. There has been much cloud in the submission of the Respondent. Therefore, without any specific details of material particulars or evidence the fact of existence of a dispute cannot be sustained. In the present case, there is no such dispute as pre-existing, the dispute which was being claimed to be pre-existing by the corporate debtor did not survive. The present application is complete and the Operational Creditor is entitled to claim its dues, establishing the default in payment of the operational debt beyond doubt, and fulfillment of requirements under section 9(5) of the Code. Hence, the present application is admitted. Application admitted - moratorium declared.
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