The Nationwide Corporate Regulation Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) on Thursday allowed a petition filed through lenders of Reliance Capital in the hunt for one other around of public sale for the debt-ridden company present process insolvency procedure.

A two-member bench put aside an order handed through NCLT and mentioned the Committee of Collectors (CoC) has the ability to barter and make contact with for a better bid.

The appellate tribunal authorised the CoC to proceed with the problem mechanism and invite bids after two weeks.

The NCLAT order got here on a petition filed through Vistra ITCL (India), one of the most lenders of Anil Ambani-promoted Reliance Capital, difficult an order of NCLT which limited additional public sale of the bankrupt company.

Within the Reliance Capital (RCap) topic, Torrent Investments had emerged because the very best bidder with a decision plan of Rs 8,640 crore.

This used to be challenged through Torrent Investments earlier than the Mumbai bench of NCLT (Nationwide Corporate Regulation Tribunal).

The NCLT had on February 2 mentioned the problem mechanism for monetary bids stood concluded as on December 21, 2022, with the bid of Torrent Investments at Rs 8,640 crore being the very best.

Torrent Investments had filed a plea on January 9, soliciting for the tribunal to quash the lenders’ plan to carry a contemporary public sale for takeover of RCap. Later, IIHL additionally filed a petition difficult the NCLT order.

Torrent Investments used to be the very best bidder providing Rs 8,640 crore within the final around of the ” problem mechanism”.

IIHL has additionally challenged the NCLT order earlier than the appellate tribunal.

RCap has a consolidated debt of about Rs 40,000 crore.