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The Banks or Secured Creditors do feel comfortable in recovering their dues using the provisions of SARFAESI Act, 2002. The object of the enactment, as everybody knows, is to enable the Banks/Secured Creditors to reduce the level of ‘Non-performing
The object of the Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 is to regulate Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest and for matters connected
What normally happens is that when the borrower fails to get an order of stay of proceedings by the Bank under the provisions of SARFAESI Act, 2002 under section 17 or where there is no restraint from the competent forum, the Bank will proceed with taking physical possession of the property and then proceed with auctioning the same in accordance with the provisions of the Act or the rules made there-under. As such, there can be an argument that the question of approaching the DRT again challenging the order of the Magistrate Court is illogical though the DRT is vested with the powers of restoring the possession back under the provisions of SARFAESI Act, 2002.
I strongly believe that implementing the provisions of the SARFAESI Act, 2002 making a good balance between the object and the interests of the borrower is a very complicated exercise. There are so many judgments on the provisions of the SARFAESI Act, 2002 and still certain areas remain complicated. I would like to share a typical case presented to me in the recent past and the facts of the case are as follows:
We all aware of the object behind SARFAESI Act, 2002 and it is to enable the banks to recover the debts speedily and to enable the banks to reduce NPAs. Despite lot of criticism that SARFAESI Act, 2002 is draconian law and it enables the Banks to harass the borrowers, Banks suffer to recover their dues in the absence of a special legislation like SARFAESI Act, 2002.
We all know the object of SARFAESI Act, 2002 and it is to assist the Banks in realization of their debt through proceeding against the “Secured Asset”. There are people and professionals supporting SARFAESI Act, 2002 on the ground that in the absence
To recover dues, bankers are trying to put the fear of God into obstinate defaulters to pay up. And how? By making it plain that they could get reported to the Credit Information Bureau, bankers have been able to achieve a modicum of success in recov
It true that the Banks suffer a lot in recovering the outstanding dues from the borrowers in the absence of special enactment like SARFAESI Act and the object of the enactment is really laudable. It is a procedural change basically to enable the Banks to recover the loans speedily and in my opinion, it is not the intention of the legislature to put the borrower remediless if they are really aggrieved at the action initiated by the Banks under SARFAESI Act, 2002.
Despite the effort made by the legislature to keep the recovery of debts by the Bank very simple and clear when the debt is secured, there exist few complications in law dealing with the recovery of secured debt under SARFAESI Act, 2002. The constitutional validity of the provisions of the SARFAESI Act were challenged before the Constitutional Courts and the courts have made it very clear that SARFAESI Act, 2002 is constitutionally valid though certain provisions required a re-look. Initially, when the act came to force, many writ petitions were filed challenging the action initiated by the Bank under the provisions of SARFAESI Act, 2002
I had the privilege of appearing in some cases under SARFAESI Act, 2002 both for the Banks and also for the debtors/guarantors. No citizen is allowed to say that they will take loan, execute documents and will not repay the loan to the Bank taking a
