Essel Group's Subhash Chandra opposes formation of 5-member NCLT bench
Essel Group Chairman Subhash Chandra on Wednesday opposed the formation of a five-member bench by the NCLT to decide his personal insolvency case, contending that the tribunal does not have the power to constitute such a bench.
Appearing for Chandra before the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), Senior Advocate Sasmit Patra termed the NCLT order "faulty and wrong" and said, "they are not empowered" to form a five-member bench.
Patra submitted that the five-member bench had on Tuesday stayed the order of Nilesh Sharma, Member (Judicial), who was brought in as the third member after a division bench of the NCLT delivered a split verdict.
NCLT on Tuesday barred Essel Group Chairman Chandra from alienating his assets and stayed an order allowing him to settle claims arising from personal guarantees on group borrowings for about Rs 6.5 crore, against claims of roughly Rs 22,006 crore.
"Under which power" it was stayed and "when did this five-member bench sit together? What
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