ArcelorMittal’ Plea Against NCLAT Order To Pay Rs 7,000 cr Before Bidding For Essar Steel: SC Begins Hearing
Live LawSteel and mining firm ArcelorMittal today assailed in the Supreme Court the order of the NCLAT asking it to pay Rs 7,000 crore to become eligible to bid for Essar Steel, saying that it had already divested its shares in the firms Uttam Galva Steel and KSS Petron, whose bad loans were directed to be paid by it.ArcelorMittal India, the steel tycoon L N Mittal-promoted group which has made. Steel and mining firm ArcelorMittal today assailed in the Supreme Court the order of the NCLAT asking it to pay Rs 7,000 crore to become eligible to bid for Essar Steel, saying that it had already divested its shares in the firms Uttam Galva Steel and KSS Petron, whose bad loans were directed to be paid by it. ArcelorMittal has moved the apex court challenging the NCLAT order of September 7 by which it had held as eligible the second bid of NuMetal, a consortium of Russia's VTB-JSW, for Essar Steel. It had last Friday ruled that NuMetal's second bid for Essar Steel was eligible but the same by ArcelorMittal will qualify only if it cleared the Rs 7,000 crore dues of firms it was previously associated with within three days.