TMI Blog2015 (3) TMI 504X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... Saha, learned Advocate for the writ petitioners refers to 2013 volume-4 Calcutta High Court Notes (CAL)236 Ujjal Kumar Das versus State Bank of India as well as ILR 2013(3) Kerala 638, (Venu versus State Bank of India) and submits that, the respondents are not entitled to publish photographs of defaulters as threatened in the impugned order. His next limb of submission is that, his client had entered into an one time settlement. The acceptance of the one time settlement is a disputed question before the Debts Recovery Tribunal. Without prejudice to its rights and contentions in the proceedings before the Debts Recovery Tribunal and without prejudice to its rights and contentions of the parties before me, he submits that, his client be allo ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... he writ petitioners have approached the respondent no.1 for a one time settlement with the bank. The writ petitioners contend that, the one time settlement was accepted and is binding between the parties. Such contention of the writ petitioners are disputed. Such issue is pending adjudication before the Debts Recovery Tribunal. I pronounce no view with regard to the validity, legality or sufficiency of the one time settlement claim to be arrived at between the parties. The Debts Recovery Tribunal or any other forum competent in law to adjudicate such issue will do so. So far as the publication of photographs of the writ petitioners in the newspapers and other places are concerned, as laid down in Ujjal Kumar Das (Supra), the bank has no p ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... unal rendered by it under the lis pending between the parties before it. I clarify that, I have not pronounced on the validity, legality or the sufficiency of the one time settlement or on the merit of the lis pending between the parties before the Debts Recovery Tribunal in any manner whatsoever. All points raised by the parties in those proceedings are kept open. I also clarify that, the Debts Recovery Tribunal will be entitled to give final directions with regard to the manner and method of adjustment of the sums that will come to the respondent no.1 pursuant to my order. The payment made by the writ petitioners as well as the receipt of such payment by the respondent authority will be wholly prejudiced to the rights and contentions of ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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