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Loan Fraud & Regulatory Lapses: Gaps in India’s Financial Framework

Finance : The paper shows that loan fraud persists due to enforcement failures, not lack of legal provisions. It highlights delays in detect...

April 2, 2026 465 Views 0 comment Print

Misuse of Insolvency Proceedings to Obstruct SARFAESI Enforcement: A Judicial Response

Corporate Law : The Court held that insolvency proceedings cannot be invoked after completion of SARFAESI auction to stall recovery. It clarified ...

March 21, 2026 969 Views 0 comment Print

Treatise on rights of borrower under SARFAESI Act, 2002: A Lawyer’s Perspective

Corporate Law : Learn the critical protections available to borrowers facing recovery actions, including notice, appeal, and redemption rights, to...

November 24, 2025 1182 Views 0 comment Print

Relinquish or realize security interest by secured creditor under liquidation

Corporate Law : Learn how secured creditors can relinquish or realize their security interest during liquidation under IBC, including timelines an...

April 5, 2025 1740 Views 0 comment Print

Impact of SARFAESI Act, 2002 on Banking Practices

Corporate Law : Explore how the SARFAESI Act transformed banking practices, enhancing recovery processes while raising concerns about borrowers' r...

October 13, 2024 1878 Views 0 comment Print


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SARFAESI Act Misuse: Government’s Lok Sabha Reply

Corporate Law : Ministry of Finance addresses Lok Sabha questions on misuse of SARFAESI Act, detailing existing safeguards for borrowers and regul...

August 7, 2025 684 Views 0 comment Print

No provision to re-seal property already auctioned by nationalized banks

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...

August 8, 2022 1017 Views 0 comment Print

SARFAESI Act, 2002: 3 month imprisonment if borrower not provide asset details

Corporate Law : The Central Govt has initiated formulation of laws to secure prudential banking & help effect a culture of credit discipline i...

December 21, 2018 2835 Views 0 comment Print

Control and resolution of NPAs

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...

August 8, 2018 1155 Views 0 comment Print

Draft ‘Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill, 2017’ -Govt invite comments

Fema / RBI : It is widely felt that the spectre of high-value economic offenders absconding from India to defy the legal process seriously unde...

May 18, 2017 1161 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Judiciary


SARFAESI Trust Income Taxable in Hands of SR Holders as Trust Was Revocable: ITAT Mumbai

Income Tax : The ITAT Mumbai ruled that income earned by a securitisation trust created under the SARFAESI Act was taxable in the hands of Secu...

May 9, 2026 282 Views 0 comment Print

Writ Petition Dismissed as Misconceived for Bypassing SARFAESI & Insolvency Proceedings

Corporate Law : The Court held that disputed issues and ongoing statutory proceedings cannot be challenged through a writ petition. It emphasized ...

May 3, 2026 369 Views 0 comment Print

Writ Petition Dismissed as DRT Order Appealable Under SARFAESI Act: AP HC

Corporate Law : The High Court held that DRT orders are appealable under Section 18 of the SARFAESI Act. It ruled that writ jurisdiction cannot be...

March 18, 2026 801 Views 0 comment Print

Insolvency Proceedings Triggered as Corporate Debtor Admits Financial Default & Files Section 10 Application

Corporate Law : The Tribunal admitted the voluntary insolvency application after examining financial statements, bank records, and other documents...

March 9, 2026 672 Views 0 comment Print

Securitization Application Dismissed as Writ Petition Was Withdrawn Without Liberty

Corporate Law : The tribunal relied on Supreme Court precedent to hold that a second proceeding cannot be filed when an earlier challenge has been...

March 8, 2026 399 Views 0 comment Print


Latest Notifications


ICAI Reprimands CA for Misleading Audit Report on SARFAESI

CA, CS, CMA : CA. Ravish Maniyar found guilty of professional misconduct by ICAI for failing to disclose pending SARFAESI proceedings in an audi...

May 9, 2024 38604 Views 0 comment Print

RBI Circular: Display of Secured Asset Information under SARFAESI Act

Fema / RBI : Reserve Bank of India (RBI) has issued Circular RBI/2023-24/63 on September 25, 2023, addressing the display of information relate...

September 25, 2023 4527 Views 0 comment Print

Housing financial companies | Financial institutions | SARFAESI Act

Finance : Central Government hereby specifies such housing financial companies registered under sub-section (5) of section 29A of the Nation...

June 17, 2021 3492 Views 0 comment Print

SARFAESI (Central Registry) (Amendment) Rules, 2020

Corporate Law : Government notifies Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest (Central Registry) ...

January 24, 2020 18132 Views 1 comment Print

Security Interest (Enforcement) Amendment Rules, 2018

Fema / RBI : Sale notice for sale of movable properties- E-Auction Sale Notice for Sale of Movable Assets under the Securitisation and Reconstr...

October 17, 2018 40818 Views 2 comments Print


SARFAESI Act 2002: Collection of taxes out of attached properties

September 6, 2017 5277 Views 0 comment Print

The SARFAESI Act has been amended on 12-08-2016 to extend the scope of the Act to provide for registration of security interest held by all other creditors, in addition to the banks and financial institutions defined as secured creditors under the Act. T

Management of NPA: Who is Responsible for Account Becoming NPA?

June 16, 2017 5370 Views 2 comments Print

Recently I have undertaken an assignment of dealing with the legal proceedings initiated by three nationalized banks under SARFAESI Act of a Corporate Company who are service providers to infrastructure projects initiated by the State Governments and Central Government and some of them are being financed by World Bank and Asian Development Bank.

TRO cannot attach property subjected to SARFAESI recovery proceedings

June 7, 2017 11769 Views 0 comment Print

Where properties attached by Tax Recovery Officer (TRO) had already been subjected to recovery proceedings by a secured creditor under SARFAESI Act, 2002, the attachment order was quashed in view of section 35 of SARFAESI Act which makes it clear that the Act would override other laws and would have effect notwithstanding anything inconsistent therewith contained in any other law for the time being in force.

Draft ‘Fugitive Economic Offenders Bill, 2017’ -Govt invite comments

May 18, 2017 1161 Views 0 comment Print

It is widely felt that the spectre of high-value economic offenders absconding from India to defy the legal process seriously undermines the rule of law in India. It is, therefore, felt necessary to provide an effective, expeditious and constitutionally permissible deterrent to ensure that such actions are curbed.

Borrower can Appeal to DRT even If Mortgaged property belongs to Guarantor

March 2, 2017 4683 Views 0 comment Print

This petition under Article 227 of the Constitution of India has been preferred for quashment of the recovery and auction proceedings initiated against the petitioner by the respondent UCO Bank (the Bank henceforth); for quashing the appellate order dated 9-11-2011 passed by the Debts Recovery Appellate Tribunal, Allahabad

Even when mortgaged property belongs to guarantor, borrower would be a person aggrieved for filing appeal U/s. 17 of SARFAESI Act, 2002

March 2, 2017 4707 Views 0 comment Print

This petition under Article 227 of the Constitution of India has been preferred for quashment of the recovery and auction proceedings initiated against the petitioner by the respondent UCO Bank (the Bank henceforth); for quashing the appellate order dated 9-11-2011 passed by the Debts Recovery Appellate Tribunal

Whether Provision of SARFAESI Act applicable to Jammu & Kashmir State?

January 25, 2017 13842 Views 1 comment Print

The SARFAESI (Securitization and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest) Act, 2002, was enacted by the Parliament to regulate securitization and reconstruction of financial assets. Further, it also provides enforcement rights to the financial institutions in respect of security interest created on Financial Assets.

Highlights of SARFAESI Act, 2002

November 19, 2016 90757 Views 11 comments Print

The Securitisation and Reconstruction of Financial Assets and Enforcement of Security Interest Act, 2002 (also known as the SARFAESI Act) is an Indian law .It allows banks and other financial institution to auction residential or commercial properties to recover loans.

SARFAESI Act: Section 17(1) – An Efficacious Alternative

September 14, 2016 17527 Views 1 comment Print

Sub section (3) of section 14 of SARFAESI Act stipulates that in case the secured creditor or it authorised officer do not act in accordance with the provisions of subsection (4) of section 13 and the rules made thereunder, then such action of the secured creditor taken as per sub-section (4) of section 13 can be made invalid by Debts Recovery Tribunal and pass such order as it may consider appropriate

SARFAESI Act- Where Principle of Natural Justice has Gone?

July 23, 2016 28538 Views 1 comment Print

Fundamental justice is a legal term that signifies a dynamic concept of fairness underlying the administration of justice and its operation, whereas principles of fundamental justice are specific legal principles that command ‘significant societal consensus’ as ‘fundamental to the way in which the legal system ought fairly to operate.’

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