Anil Ambani-led RCom is bankrupt; next hearing on May 30: On Thursday, the National Company Law Tribunal disclosed that Anil Ambani-led Reliance Communications (RCom) for bankruptcy as it maintained the company’s appeal to exclude 357 days spent in lawsuit to get the bankruptcy procedure going.
RCom, which be indebted more than Rs 50,000 crore to banks, has currently been officially affirmed bankrupt after the NCLT on Thursday out-dated its board and selected a new resolution professional to run it as well as also permit the SBIled association of 31 banks in order to form a committee of creditors.
At the last hearing, RCom search for the prohibiting of the period from May 30, 2018 to April 30, 2019 as the first bankruptcy measures was remained by the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal and well ahead by the Supreme Court.
A bench that included VP Singh and R Duraisamy said that the matter should carry on in a method of law and in view of the course of action, the court grants the prohibiting of time for Reliance Infratel and Reliance Telecom along with RCom.
RCom was in distress for years pushing it to put an end to processes two years ago. Its struggle to stave off insolvency by selling spectrum to Reliance Jio got scurried after legal and government postponements for authorizations. But it may possibly not encounter any of the numerous publicly made assurances to pay back the lenders by monetising real estate and spectrum assets.
In the previous month also company chairman Anil Ambani managed to evade a disapproval of the Supreme Court and a likely jail term after a last-minute bailout by elder brother Mukesh who extended him more than Rs 480 crore to pay back vendor Ericsson, which was the first operating creditor to drag it to NCLT.
In September 2017, Ericsson took the company to NCLT for non-payment of over Rs 1,500 crore dues. At last they all agreed for a Rs 550 crore clearance.
Previously, China Development Bank from which RCom had loaned out more than USD 1 billion, had drawn it to NCLT which was settled after giving a share of its headquarters DAKC in the close Navi Mumbai.
RCom had run into heavy losses due to the reason of fierce price war in the telecom sector let loose by elder brother Mukesh Ambani-run Reliance Jio which has been proposing free calls and dirt-cheap data.
RCom’s tried to stop insolvency measures from kicking in by selling spectrum to Reliance Jio but at the end it did not work out as the government did not clear the deal.
On this month, May 3, SBI also held a meeting to pick out an RP after hand out a request for proposal in April for a new RP. RCom’s committee of creditors is going to have to accept a new RP with a 66 per cent vote after the NCLT starts the bankruptcy procedure.
Also, in addition the Mumbai bench which was held on this month on May 7 had also directed the current RP to file a development report by the end of the month that is on May 30 when it will hear the matter.
