Creditor not become Financial Creditor if Corporate Debtor Only Gives Security by Pledging Shares without Undertaking to Discharge Borrower: SC

Phoenix Arc Pvt. Ltd. Vs Ketulbhai Ramubhai Patel (Supreme Court) This Court held that a person having only security interest over the assets of corporate debtor, even if falling within the description of ‘secured creditor’ by virtue of collateral security extended by the corporate debtor, would not be covered by the financial creditors as per definitions contained in sub-section (7) and (8) of Section 5. What has been held by this Court as noted above is fully attracted in the present case where corporate debtor has only extended a security by pledging 40,160 shares of GEL. The ap...