Corporate Law : The Supreme Court held that borrowers lose their statutory right of redemption once a valid auction notice is published under Sect...
Finance : The article explores how the SARFAESI Act empowers banks to recover dues efficiently while highlighting the procedural safeguards ...
Finance : The paper shows that loan fraud persists due to enforcement failures, not lack of legal provisions. It highlights delays in detect...
Corporate Law : The Court held that insolvency proceedings cannot be invoked after completion of SARFAESI auction to stall recovery. It clarified ...
Corporate Law : Learn the critical protections available to borrowers facing recovery actions, including notice, appeal, and redemption rights, to...
Corporate Law : Ministry of Finance addresses Lok Sabha questions on misuse of SARFAESI Act, detailing existing safeguards for borrowers and regul...
Finance : There is no mention of the term re-sealing of property in SARFAESI Act, 2022 and the Recovery of Debts and Bankruptcy (RDB) Act, 1...
Corporate Law : The Central Govt has initiated formulation of laws to secure prudential banking & help effect a culture of credit discipline i...
Fema / RBI : The Gross Advances of Scheduled Commercial Banks (SCBs) increased from Rs.25,03,431 crore as on 31.3.2008 to Rs. 68,75,748 crore...
Fema / RBI : It is widely felt that the spectre of high-value economic offenders absconding from India to defy the legal process seriously unde...
Corporate Law : Supreme Court held that a Section 7 IBC application can proceed despite pending winding-up proceedings where no irreversible stage...
Corporate Law : Madras HC held that a pending NCLAT appeal did not prevent PNB from conducting a Swiss Challenge auction after the OTS proposal wa...
Corporate Law : DRT Chandigarh quashed the auction after finding the bank failed to maintain the mandatory 15-day notice period before sale....
Corporate Law : The DRAT upheld the DRT's refusal to accept the settlement after finding that the bank had not complied with the final order direc...
Corporate Law : The Supreme Court held that High Courts should ordinarily refrain from entertaining writ petitions in SARFAESI matters where an ef...
Corporate Law : IBBI held that an Insolvency Professional cannot delay constitution of the Committee of Creditors based on settlement discussions ...
CA, CS, CMA : CA. Ravish Maniyar found guilty of professional misconduct by ICAI for failing to disclose pending SARFAESI proceedings in an audi...
Fema / RBI : Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued Circular RBI/2023-24/63 on September 25, 2023, addressing the display of information relate...
Finance : Central Government hereby specifies such housing financial companies registered under sub-section (5) of section 29A of the Nation...
Corporate Law : Government notifies Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest (Central Registry) ...
Bhagwan Singh Vs State of Himachal (Himachal High Court) It is concluded that SARFAESI Act and RDB Act shall have overriding effect to provisions of HPVAT Act. Hence, the said property is to be permitted to be transferred in favour of petitioners free from all encumbrances in terms of E-aution. Facts- Petitioners are purchasers of […]
E. K. RAJAN Vs Authorized Officer (Kerala High Court) Conclusion: Since there was a failure on the part of the respondent to serve notice of not less than 15 days upon assessee, therefore, the notice of sale proposing to auction the property of the was bad in law and the consequent sale was liable to […]
In view of the provisions of Section 14(1)(c) of the IBC, which have overriding effect over any other law, any action to foreclose, recover or enforce any security interest created by the Corporate Debtor in respect of its property including any action under the SARFAESI Act is prohibited. We are of the view that the appellant Bank could not have continued the proceedings under the SARFAESI Act once the CIRP was initiated and the moratorium was ordered.
Bajaj Finance Ltd. Vs LD. District Collector (Gujarat High Court) On perusal of the section 26E and Section 14 of the SARFAESI Act, it is clear that the District Magistrate has to discharge the ministerial act of providing assistance to the secured creditor to take physical possession of the secured assets when the secured creditor has […]
Debts Recovery Tribunals (DRTs), in some recent cases, have dismissed certain Securitisation Applications (SAs) on a peculiar ground of prematurity- ‘no loss of possession of the secured asset’. In the opinion of these DRTs, where neither the symbolic nor the actual physical possession of the immovable property/secured asset was taken by the secured creditor, but only intimation notices to take physical possession of such property were issued by the court receiver appointed under Section 14 of the SARFAESI Act, 2002, the SAs challenging such intimation notices were premature.
Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets & Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (SARFAESI) is basically is an act which provides different options to Banks and Financial Institutions for resolving their non performing assets and it is also an effective tool in the hands of the lenders to enforce the security interest and recover the […]
Kumaresh K Vs Union Of India and Other (Karnataka High Court) It is evident that Section 14(1)(v) of Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (SARFAESI Act) provides that an application which may be submitted by the secured creditor shall be accompanied by an affidavit duly affirmed by authorized […]
CA. Manisha Mehta Vs The Board of Directors of Represented by its Managing Director of ICICI Bank and ors. (Bombay High Court) The main prayer of the petitioners is for a declaration that natural justice should be read into section 14 of the SARFAESI Act. The SARFAESI Act is intended to facilitate quick recovery of […]
Poorti Rent a Car and Logistics Pvt. Ltd. Vs Kotak Mahindra Bank Ltd. (Bombay High Court) Provisions of the SARFAESI Act can be applied even in respect of loan agreements entered into before such enactment was brought into force, we see nothing in any law to hold that the provisions thereof can never be resorted […]
Bank of Baroda Vs Karwa Trading Company (Supreme Court of India) SC held that Section 17 of the SARFAESI Act was not justified in directing to release the mortgaged property and handover the possession along with the original title deeds to the borrower on payment of Rs.48.65 lakhs only which was the base price/ reserve […]
