Future Retail Lenders Move Supreme Court, Call For Its Assets To Be Put Up For Auction
ABP NewsNew Delhi: Future Retail lenders have moved Supreme Court and said that the assets of retail firm should be put up for auction after it missed payments. According to Reuters, lenders have already classified or begun classifying the loan account of Future Retail as an NPA since the payment was not made within the stipulated time, the lenders mentioned in the filing. Being classified as an NPA will raise financial troubles for India’s second-largest retail chain, which has for months tried to sell its assets to rival Reliance Industries, but failed to do so because of legal hurdles from its partner Amazon Inc. Future last month, after it missed making certain payments on its loans, challenged its lenders in the Supreme Court to avoid facing insolvency proceedings or being classified as a defaulter, citing its ongoing legal dispute with Amazon. Future has failed to complete its $3.4-billion retail asset sale as the US e-commerce giant has successfully argued before several legal forums that the Indian retail major violated certain non-compete contractual terms.