Jet Airways shut down its operations on April 17 following the refusal by its lenders to advance any funds for its operations, The News Minute reported. Subsequently, State Bank of India filed an application with the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) to initiate insolvency proceedings against the airline company. News has now come in that Etihad Airways has expressed its interest in the resolution of the Jet Airways imbroglio.

India’s battle against the world’s worst bad-loan ratio is being stalled by some unforeseen parties: regulators and federal investigators, Bloomberg News reported. A spate of legal challenges mounted by the country’s markets regulator, anti-money-laundering agency and its tax department accentuate conflicts between bankruptcy law and other regulations that pre-date them. In many cases, the court battles being fought by these agencies to hang on to powers to seize and sell assets of those violating their rules are derailing a 270-day resolution deadline set by the insolvency law.

Indian tycoon Anil Ambani plans to raise about 217 billion rupees ($3.2 billion) by selling assets from roads to radio stations in a bid to cut debt…Ambani is waging a war on debt. He said on June 11 that his Reliance Group repaid 350 billion rupees in the past 14 months through asset disposals, Bloomberg News reported. But a large pile remains. The four biggest group companies still have about 939 billion rupees of debt. And that excludes Reliance Communications Ltd., Ambani’s former flagship firm, that recently slipped into insolvency.

Indian car sales fell by nearly a quarter last month — marking one of the industry’s worst slumps in more than a decade — as a credit crunch squeezes consumption across the country, the Financial Times reported. Car sales of 139,628 for June were down 24 per cent on the same period last year, according to the Society of Indian Automobile Manufacturers, extending a run of three months of declines of 20 per cent or more. Sales fell 26 per cent in May. At the heart of the pain is a liquidity squeeze whose effect has started to show up in India’s industrial and economic data.

Freightco India Ltd. moved the National Company Law Tribunal to initiate insolvency proceedings against Jain Farm Fresh Foods Ltd.—a subsidiary of debt-laden Jain Irrigation Systems Ltd.—for not paying dues, BloombergQuint reported. Jain Farm Fresh, nearly 82 percent of which is owned by Ashok Jain and family-controlled Jain Irrigation, had reported a revenue worth Rs 1,632.94 crore as of March 2018 and suffered a loss of Rs 43.53 crore, according to disclosures made in the parent’s annual report.

In a related story, Moneycontrol reported that the discourse over cross border or international insolvency framework has significantly gained traction with the turmoil at Jet Airways. Any airline having international operations will naturally have assets and businesses in multiple jurisdictions. If it goes bankrupt, then questions pertaining to the relevant country will naturally arise.

The first meeting of the committee of creditors (CoC) regarding the insolvency proceedings of Jet Airways is likely to take place early next week, sources told FE. The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) had on June 20 passed an order to initiate insolvency proceedings against the grounded airline following a plea filed by State Bank of India, The Financial Express reported. The first fortnightly report by the court-appointed interim resolution professional (RP) was submitted to NCLT on July 5.

Shares in Punjab National Bank slid after the lender said it had reported a suspected 38 billion rupee ($554.63 million) fraud in Bhushan Power & Steel Ltd’s account, potentially delaying a sale of the firm’s assets and consequent repayments to creditors, Reuters reported. PNB is among nearly 34 financial creditors who have claimed a collective 473.03 billion rupees from Bhushan Power & Steel Ltd, which the Reserve Bank of India referred to a bankruptcy court in 2017.

India will inject another 700 billion rupees ($10.2 billion) into state banks, giving them a bigger cushion to absorb loan losses and bolster credit growth at a time when the country’s shadow banks are in retreat, Bloomberg News reported. The new infusion will “boost capital so that credit can be further improved,” Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman said on Friday, while presenting the federal budget for the year to March 2020. New measures will be introduced to improve governance at the state lenders, she added, without giving details.

The National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) has directed the Mumbai bench of the NCLT to pass an order over the insolvency plea against 15 Videocon group companies within next three weeks, Business Standard reported. The NCLAT said that taking into consideration the nature of the matter, the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) Mumbai should pass an order within three weeks over the insolvency plea filed by banks. The NCLAT order came over the plea filed by the lenders, led by SBI and the Resolution Professional of the company.