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           A transaction would be an ‘attempted suspicious   passed by Adjudicating Authority rejecting
           transaction’ if same was formally initiated     said application and imposing penalty under
           but abandoned/aborted on account of some        section 65 was to be set aside.
           intervening factors.
                                                                 Application under rehabilitation
                 Transfer of shares without pass-                scheme by sick company wouldn’t
                 ing board’s resolution by company               be ground to defer winding up
                 amounts to oppression and misman-               order: HC
                 agement: NCLT
                                                           Board For Industrial & Financial Reconstruction
           AAR KAY Chemicals (P.) Ltd. v. A.P. Refinery    v. Managing Director [2018] 89 taxmann.com
           (P.) Ltd. [2017] 88 taxmann.com 291 (NCLT       13 (Guj.)
           - Chd.)
                                                           Where BIFR rendered its opinion for winding
           Where shares of company were transferred to     up of a company in 2013 and said company
           respondent group’s own company without any      did not make any attempt to settle its dues
           Board Resolution passed by either company,      till Government introduced rehabilitation
           impugned shares were to be transferred back     scheme in 2016 for extending relief to sick
           to petitioner as such transaction amounted      industries, simply because said company had
           to oppression and mismanagement.                made an application under such rehabilitation
                                                           scheme, it would not be a ground to defer
                 Company Court has no power to             winding up of company.
                 induct proceedings before NCLT in
                 pending winding up petitions                    NCLT orders restoration of Co’s name
                                                                 as it was running successful busi-
           Jotun India (P.) Ltd. v.  PSL Ltd. [2018] 89          ness and had agreed to file pending
           taxmann.com 58 (Bom.)                                 returns
           Admission of winding up petition by jurisdictional
           High Court would not mean that NCLT             Sree Gayathri Leisure India (P.) Ltd. v.
           either loses jurisdiction or cannot exercise    Registrar of Companies Andhra Pradesh &
           jurisdiction in case of a petition which is filed   Telangana [2018] 89 taxmann.com 34 (NCLT
           by another creditor (financial, operational or   - Hyd.)
           company itself under section 10 of the IBC).    Where Company was rendering uninterrupted
                                                           services as commission agent for referring and
                 Penalty imposed to be set aside as        enrolling members into resorts, clubs, hotels,
                 there was nothing on record that          family parks and related activities, etc, merely
                 debtor had suppressed any fact            because there was delay in non-filing statutory
                                                           returns, reason of which was explained and
           Unigreen Global (P.) Ltd. v. Punjab National    company had expressed its willingness to file
           Bank, New Delhi [2018] 89 taxmann.com 17        all returns along with payment of prescribed
           (NCL-AT)                                        fee to which ROC had no objection, name
                                                           of company was to be restored along with
           Where there was nothing on record to            original status of Company subject to payment
           suggest that corporate applicant had filed      of cost for revival.
           application  under  section  10  ‘fraudulently’
           or with a ‘malicious intent’, impugned order



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