Creditor Who Don’t Submit Claim Or Raises Issues In CIRP, Has No Right To Challenge Resolution Plan: NCLAT Delhi
Live LawThe National Company Law Appellate Tribunal, Principal Bench, comprising of Justice Rakesh Kumar Jain and Shri Naresh Salecha, while adjudicating an appeal filed in Madhya Pradesh Paschim Kshetra Vidyut Vitaran Co. Ltd. v Jagdish Kumar & Anr., has held that a creditor who neither submits its claim before the IRP/Resolution Professional, nor raises any issue during the entire CIRP period, cannot be allowed to challenge resolution plan which has already been implemented. Madhya Pradesh Paschim Kshetra Vidyut Vitaran Co. Ltd. was supplying electricity to the Corporate Debtor’s plant located at Jhabua. “This ‘Appellate Tribunal’ also observes that the ‘Resolution Plan’ approved by the ‘Adjudicating Authority’ has taken care of the interest of all the stakeholders who have filed claim with the IRP/RP. It is noted that the ‘Appellant’ has not filed any claim with the IRP/RP nor raised any issue during the entire ‘CIRP’ period or during the approval of the ‘Resolution Plan’ by the ‘Adjudicating Authority’, therefore, the ‘Appellant’ at this stage cannot be allowed to raise such issues especially when the ‘Resolution Plan’ stand implemented.” The Bench held that since the Electricity Department has neither submitted its claim with the IRP/Resolution Professional nor raised any issue during the entire CIRP period, it cannot be allowed to raise issues with respect to the resolution plan which has already been implemented.