Highlights of Supreme Court decision on NCLT issue

The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) was expected to take over the role of the High Court (in dealing with company law matters such as sanctioning of schemes of arrangement, ordering winding up of companies, dealing with petitions for oppression and mismanagement and the like), the Company Law Board (CLB) and the Board of Industrial and Financial Reconstruction (BIFR) for speedy disposal of aforesaid matters and avoid multiplicity of litigation before various fora. However, the establishment of the NCLT has been involved in controversy right from the start. Although the Companies Act, 1956...