Corporate Law : SARFAESI Act of 2002 addresses India's non-performing assets. Section 13 empowers secured creditors to enforce security interests ...
Goods and Services Tax : Explore the Madras High Court ruling on allowing Input Tax Credit without physical invoices, emphasizing electronic records for GS...
Fema / RBI : Get answers to common queries about displaying secured assets under SARFAESI Act 2002. Learn about asset disclosure, updates, and ...
Corporate Law : Read how Bombay High Court's recent judgment issued crucial directives for swift processing of creditors' applications under SARFA...
Corporate Law : Article examining the two approaches Financial Institutions in India use for vehicle seizure: traditional vs. SARFAESI methods. Ex...
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 : The Union Cabinet today approved introduction of the Enforcement of Security Interest and Recovery of Debts Laws (Amendment) Bill,...
Corporate Law : Legal analysis of SARFAESI Act: Exemption from stamp duty for documents favoring asset reconstruction. Case: Assets Care Vs Ankit ...
Corporate Law : Kerala High Court rules that a secured creditor cannot proceed under SARFAESI Act if a civil suit for recovery has been dismissed ...
Corporate Law : Kerala High Court intervenes in coercive recovery proceedings against petitioners for financial advance default, granting time for...
Corporate Law : In Govind Kumar Sharma & Anr Vs Bank of Baroda case, Supreme Court sets aside auction sale under SARFAESI Act due to procedural la...
Goods and Services Tax : Bombay High Court held that MVAT Authorities would not have priority in the recourse to the assets that are secured in favour of t...
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) ...
Fema / RBI : Sale notice for sale of movable properties- E-Auction Sale Notice for Sale of Movable Assets under the Securitisation and Reconstr...
Corporate Law : Central Government hereby makes the following amendments in the notification of the Government of India, in the Ministry of Financ...
Supreme Court held that as the State of Himachal Pradesh didn’t took any steps for realization of its dues, recourse to Himachal Pradesh Land Revenue Act (HPLR Act) for recovery of dues as arrears of land revenue not sustainable.
CESTAT Delhi held that when a government company is involved there will be a rebuttable presumption regarding nonexistence of any of the ingredients mentioned in the proviso to section 73(1) of the Finance Act. Accordingly, extended period of limitation couldn’t be invoked.
Gujarat High Court held that the debts due to Bank – a secured creditor shall be paid in priority over other debts-taxes payable to the State Government.
How Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (IBC) and SARFEASI are impacting in recovery of stressed assets? General idea, we all possess is that the role of ARC, established under SARFEASI to primarily resolve the issue of NPA/Bad Loan.
Union Bank of India Vs Rajasthan Real Estate Regulatory Authority (Supreme Court of India) The Supreme Court upheld Rajasthan High Court judgment and held that RERA would not apply in relation to the transaction between the borrower and the banks and financial institutions in cases where security interest has been created by mortgaging the property […]
Kerala High Court held that statutory charge created against dealers as per the provisions of KGST Act, 1963 and KVAT Act, 2003, prior to any mortgage made, against the dealer would remain intact, even if the property is sold by Bank.
The Hon’ble Supreme Court observed in a case where the borrower also challenges the auction sale and does not accept the same and also challenges the steps taken under Section 13(2)/13(4) of the SARFAESI Act with respect to secured assets, the borrower has to deposit 50% of the amount claimed by the secured creditor along with interest as per section 2(g) of the Act 1993 and as per section 2(g), “debt” means any liability inclusive of interest which is claimed as due from any person.
The Hon’ble Supreme Court observed that MSMED Act does not provide any priority over the debt dues of the secured creditor akin to Section 26E of the SARFAESI Act. Further, it was held that so far as recoveries under the SARFAESI Act with respect to the secured assets would prevail over the recoveries under the MSMED Act to recover the amount under the award / decree passed by the Facilitation Council.
The Hon’ble Supreme Court after considering the object and purpose of Section 31(i) of the SARFAESI Act that merely because in the revenue records the secured properties are shown as agricultural land is not sufficient to attract the said provision.
Maa Kalika Bhandar and Others Vs Collector and District Magistrate (Orissa High Court) Property was mortgaged in favour of the Bank on 28.06.2016 whereas the Income Tax Authorities had attached the same on 31.12.2015. Hence, the mortgaged transaction in favour of the Bank is void. Main argument stressed is that the properties in both the […]
