Supreme Court of India

Standard Chartered Bank v. Dharminder Bhohi and Others

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Reported as [2013] 9 S.C.R. 410
Bench Anil R. Dave and Dipak Misra JJ.
Decided 13 September 2013

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the borrowers would get a reasonably fair deal and opportunity to get the matter adjudicated upon before the Debts Recovery Tribunal.

Judgment, page 16

From the headnote

SEGUR/TISA TION AND RECONSTRUCTION OF FINANCIAL ASSETS AND ENFORCEMENT OF SECURITY INTEREST ACT, 2002: Delay in disposal of cases and granting of adjournments by ORT and DRAT - Object of the Act - Explained -- Held: Delay in disposal of application by DRT and appeal by DRAT 0 has the potentiality or creating a corrosion in the economic spine of the country - Grant of an adjournment should be an exception and not a routine and mechanical matter - Tribunals are expected to act in quite promptitude, so that an . ingenious litigant does not take recourse to dilatory toctics - In the case at hand,

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 referred to

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