Supreme Court upholds Modi govt's Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code
Op IndiaOn Thursday, 9th November, the Supreme Court upheld the constitutional validity of the provisions of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016, relating to Personal Guarantors’s Insolvency Resolution. The Supreme Court bench ruled that it could not read an adjudicatory role into these rules and that changing the adjudicatory role would render the entire chronological procedure null and void. Back in 2021, the Supreme Court affirmed the rules of the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code relating to the insolvency of personal guarantors, which went into effect in 2019. Notably, the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code 2016, is a bankruptcy law in India brought by the Narendra Modi-led NDA government seeking to consolidate the existing framework by creating a single Law for Insolvency and Bankruptcy.