2021 (1) TMI 312
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....la Member (Technical) Appellant: Mr. Mritunjay Tiwary, Advocate. Respondent: None ORDER (Through Virtual Mode) Upon proof of service of notice on Respondent, its appearance was awaited on the last date of hearing. Even today, nobody has turned up to defend the appeal on behalf of Respondent. In the given circumstances, we proceed to hear learned counsel for the Appellant and dispose off the a....
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....ional Creditor under Section 9 of the 'I&B Code'. Format in which the demand notice is to be issued by the Operational Creditor in terms of the 'Insolvency and Bankruptcy (Application to Adjudicating Authority) Rules, 2016' is prescribed in Form-3. The delivery of notice is to be effected in the prescribed form which must emanate from the Operational Creditor or any authorized person on its behalf....
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....own that the lawyer was not duly instructed. It appears from para 10 of the impugned order that the Adjudicating Authority was aware of this legal proposition but in the opinion of the Adjudicating Authority there was no due authorization backed by Board Resolution of the Operational Creditor. This finding is unsustainable as in case of a person other than an Advocate, the Board Resolution would b....
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....hich is reflected in the aforesaid order. Judicial consistency would demand that the same view, which was based on the judgment of the Hon'ble Apex Court, should have been taken in the latter case as well. Once an Advocate was duly instructed to issue the demand notice, there was no room for holding that the notice delivered by the Advocate was not a notice delivered by an authorized person. 7. V....