Whether Successful Auction Purchaser can prosecute the avoidance application after approval of the acquisition plan – Kunwer Sachdev Vs. Su-Kam Power Systems Ltd. – NCLAT New Delhi
November 17, 2023
Hon’ble NCLAT held that:
(i) It is the Resolution Professional or Liquidator who are empowered to come to opinion and file an application for avoidance of the transaction.
(ii) Any assets or their value recovered through proceedings for avoidance of transactions shall form the liquidation estate. There can be no dispute to this legal position that proceeds of the avoidance application are part of the liquidation estate.
(iii) The Regulation 44A deals with treatment of transaction avoidance which itself contemplates that there can be a position regarding prosecution of avoidance application even after resolution or closure of liquidation process and the manner in which the proceeds, if any, from such proceedings shall be distributed.
(iv) In the present case it is not a case that avoidance application has been filed by the Successful Auction Purchaser, The Insolvency Law Committee Report does not in any manner help the Appellant.
(v) The issue as to whether the Successful Auction Purchaser can prosecute the avoidance application in place of Resolution Professional by substituting its name was not subject matter of the issue in the aforesaid case of 63 Moons Technologies Ltd. (2022) ibclaw.in 95 NCLAT hence we are of the view that on the ground that civil appeal is pending before the Hon’ble Supreme Court, hearing of the matter need not be deferred.