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Company & Insolvency LawSupreme Court of India

Sanket Kumar Agarwal & Anr. vs. APG Logistics Private Limited

Civil Appeal · 2023 INSC 727Decided 1 May 2023
Civil Appeal No. 748 of 2023
Dr. Dhananjaya Y. Chandrachud · J.B. Pardiwala

Background

The appellant's application under Section 7 of the IBC to initiate insolvency proceedings against the respondent was dismissed by the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) on 26 August 2022. The appellant applied for a certified copy of the order on 2 September 2022, received it on 15 September 2022, and e-filed the appeal before the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on 10 October 2022, with the physical copy following on 31 October 2022. The NCLAT dismissed the appeal as time-barred, holding it was filed on the 46th day after the order: one day beyond the maximum permissible 45-day limit (30 days plus a 15-day condonable delay) under Section 61(2) of the IBC.

Decision Breakdown

The Supreme Court held that under Section 12(1) of the Limitation Act, 1963 and Rule 3 of the NCLAT Rules, the date of pronouncement of the order itself must be excluded from the computation, and under Section 12(2), the time taken by the tribunal to furnish the certified copy (here, 10 days, since the appellant had diligently applied for it) must also be excluded. Recalculating on this basis, the Court found the appeal was actually filed on the 45th day, well within the permissible outer limit, so the NCLAT's dismissal was erroneous. The Court also strongly criticised the NCLAT's inconsistent and flip-flopping administrative circulars on whether limitation should run from e-filing or physical filing, urging tribunals nationwide to move fully towards e-filing and stop requiring needless duplicate paper filings; it set aside the NCLAT's order and restored the appeal for disposal on merits.

Lesson Learnt

When calculating deadlines to file a court or tribunal appeal, the day the order was passed and the time genuinely taken by the court/tribunal to issue a certified copy (if applied for promptly) do not count against you, miscalculating these exclusions, as the NCLAT did here, can wrongly cost a litigant their entire appeal.

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