No legal impediment for a Trust to be a Resolution Applicant in submitting a Resolution Plan – M/s. Aswathi Agencies Vs. Bijoy Prabhakaran Pulipra, RP PVS Memorial Hospital Pvt. Ltd. – NCLAT Chennai
December 6, 2022
NCLAT held that to put it precisely, the word `Person’, is defined as per Section 3(23)(d) of the Code, which includes a Trust, therefore, there is no fetter/embargo or a legal impediment, for a Trust, to be a Resolution Applicant, in submitting a Resolution Plan (in the present case), the candid fact, is that the Successful Resolution Applicant being a Registered Charitable Trust, under the Indian Trust Act, 1882, in CIRP, in the cocksure earnest opinion. Looking at from that perspective, the contra plea taken on behalf of the Appellant is not acceded to by this Tribunal.