Insolvency tribunal NCLT approved 180 resolution plans in FY23, making it the highest-ever annual number so far, the Economic Times of India reported. With this, NCLT has clocked in a total realisation of Rs 51,424 crore from stressed assets. While, in terms of realisation of the amount for creditors, this is the second highest after FY19, when the total realisation was Rs 1.11 lakh crore after completing 77 insolvency proceedings including some big-ticket matters such as Essar Steel and Monnet Ispat.
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Go First, an Indian low-cost airline, collapsed in May under the weight of four years of losses, citations for safety lapses and operating confusion that, in January, resulted in a flight from Bangalore to Delhi carrying baggage but forgetting a third of its passengers. At least the carrier held valuable assets in the form of 45 or so aircraft stranded at Indian airports. And, as a high-priority case, it was supposedly subject to expedited bankruptcy hearings, according to The Economist.
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Crisis-hit Go First Airlines on Tuesday (May 30) informed that its scheduled flight operations will remain cancelled till June 4, adding that a full refund will be issued to the passengers, The Hindu reported. Earlier flight operations were cancelled till May 30. The airline operator had recently filed for voluntary insolvency. The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) last week advised Go First Airlines to submit a comprehensive restructuring plan for a sustainable revival of operations.
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Jaypee Infratech, which is facing insolvency proceedings, on Monday said the company has deferred the approval of financial statements for the quarter and fiscal ended March 2023, as it has not been finalised in view of pending cases in the appellate tribunal. On March 7, the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) approved the resolution plan of Mumbai-based realty firm Suraksha Group to take over Jaypee Infratech.
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The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal has dismissed a petition filed by the suspended promoter and director of real estate and construction company Renaissance Indus Infra against the bankruptcy court’s ruling to admit the company under the corporate insolvency resolution process (CIRP) following a plea by its financial creditor Catalyst Trusteeship, the Economic Times of India reported. The lender had moved the bankruptcy court after the company defaulted on its dues worth nearly Rs 444 crore.
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Pratt & Whitney has no engines currently available for India's Go First airline, which also has no rights over them, the counsel for the U.S. firm told a Delaware court on Thursday as the two companies engaged in a raging dispute over the supplies, Reuters reported. The Indian airline has approached the Delaware court to enforce an arbitration order it won in Singapore against Pratt & Whitney, which it blames for its financial troubles and argues the U.S. firm failed to supply engines on time. Pratt says those claims are without merit.

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In the seven years that it has been around, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s signature bankruptcy reform has failed to live up to its billing, according to an analysis in the Washington Post. The 2016 insolvency law was crafted when the country was just starting to tackle what would eventually rank among the worst piles of bad loans anywhere in the world: a $200 billion-plus menace. With banks garnering bumper profits in the post-pandemic high interest-rate environment, that baggage is now much lighter, and the urgency to deal with it is lower. It shouldn’t be.

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An Indian appeals tribunal upheld insolvency proceedings against Go First on Monday, throwing a spanner in the works for the airline's lessors, who are attempting to take back their planes, Reuters reported. At least three leasing companies, including SMBC Aviation Capital, had challenged a tribunal ruling granting Go Airlines (India), widely known as Go First, bankruptcy protection earlier this month.

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The National Company Law Tribunal on Friday dismissed IDBI Bank's insolvency plea against Subhash Chandra promoted Zee Entertainment Enterprises Ltd (ZEEL), the Economic Times of India reported. The public sector lender had filed an insolvency resolution petition against Zee for the default of over Rs 149 crore. The company said in a filing in December 2022 told said that IDBI Bank, claiming to be a financial creditor, filed the petition before the Mumbai bench of the NCLT.
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A committee appointed by India’s top court said that it doesn’t see any regulatory failure or signs of price manipulation in the rise and fall of the Adani Group’s stocks, in an interim report that’s a reprieve for the embattled conglomerate, Bloomberg News reported. All 10 Adani Group stocks rose in Mumbai trading on Friday after the six-member panel’s report was made public, with flagship firm Adani Enterprises Ltd. and Adani Ports and Special Economic Zone Ltd. recovering the day’s losses to close around 3.5% up.
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