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The National Company Law Tribunal is a quasi-judicial body in India that adjudicates issues relating to Indian companies. [1] The tribunal was established under the Companies Act 2013 and was constituted on 1 June 2016 by the government of India and is based on the recommendation of the V. Balakrishna Eradi committee on law relating to the insolvency and the winding up of companies. [2]
All proceedings under the Companies Act, including proceedings relating to arbitration, compromise, arrangements, reconstructions and the winding up of companies shall be disposed off by the National Company Law Tribunal. The NCLT bench is chaired by a Judicial member who is supposed to be a retired or a serving High Court Judge and a Technical member who must be from the Indian Corporate Law Service, ICLS Cadre.
The National Company Law Tribunal is the adjudicating authority for the insolvency resolution process of companies and limited liability partnerships under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016.
No criminal court shall have jurisdiction to entertain any suit or proceeding in respect of any matter which the Tribunal or the Appellate Tribunal is empowered to determine by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force and no injunction shall be granted by any court or other authority in respect of any action taken or to be taken in pursuance of any power conferred by or under this Act or any other law for the time being in force, by the Tribunal or the Appellate Tribunal.
The tribunal has sixteen benches, six at New Delhi (one being the principal bench) and two at Ahmedabad, one at Prayagraj, one at Bengaluru, one at Chandigarh, two at Chennai, one at Cuttack, one at Guwahati, three at Hyderabad of which one is at Amaravati, [3] one at Jaipur, one at Kochi, two at Kolkata and five at Mumbai. [4] Of the two new benches approved to be set up, one each in Indore [5] and Amaravati, [5] the Indore bench is yet to be notified. Except the Bench at Amaravati, all the benches have been notified as division benches. Justice Ramalingam Sudhakar, a retired Chief Justice of Manipur High Court has been appointed as president of the tribunal since 01.11.2021.. [1]
The National Company Law Tribunal has the power under the Companies Act to adjudicate proceedings:
Following is the List of Hon'ble President and Sitting Members [6]
Sr.No | Name | Designation | Date of Joining | NCLT Bench |
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1 | Chief Justice (Retd) Ramalingam Sudhakar | President | 01-11-2021 | Principal Bench |
2 | Shyam Babu Gautam | Member | 03-07-2019 | Kochi |
3 | Patibandla Satyanarayana Prasad | Member | 04-07-2019 | Chandigarh |
4 | Venkata Subba Rao Hari | Member | 04-07-2019 | Guwahati |
5 | Laxmi Narayan Gupta | Member | 04-07-2019 | New Delhi |
6 | Satya Ranjan Prasad | Member | 24-07-2019 | Guwahati |
7 | Deep Chandra Joshi | Member | 13-09-2021 | Jaipur |
8 | Rahul Prasad Bhatnagar | Member | 13-09-2021 | New Delhi |
9 | Avinash K Srivastava | Member | 13-09-2021 | New Delhi |
10 | Anuradha Sanjay Bhatia | Member | 13-09-2021 | Amravati |
11 | Rohit Kapoor | Member | 14-09-2021 | Kolkatta |
12 | P Mohan Raj | Member | 15-09-2021 | Cuttack |
13 | Harnam Singh Thakur | Member | 16-09-2021 | Chandigarh |
14 | Balraj Joshi | Member | 16-09-2021 | Kolkatta |
15 | Manoj Kumar Dubey | Member | 16-09-2021 | Bengaluru |
16 | Subrata Kumar Dash | Member | 20-09-2021 | Chandigarh |
17 | Kaushelndra Kumar Singh | Member | 01-10-2021 | Indore |
18 | Dr V R Badrinath Nandula | Member | 04-10-2021 | Hyderabad |
19 | Sameer Kakar | Member | 09-10-2021 | Ahmedabad |
20 | Bacchu Venkat Balaram Das | Member | 18-10-2021 | New Delhi |
21 | Kishore Vemulapalli | Member | 06-12-2021 | Mumbai |
22 | Kuldip Kumar Kareer | Member | 18-11-2022 | Mumbai |
23 | Praveen Kumar Gupta | Member | 18-11-2022 | Allahabad |
24 | Ashok Kumar Bhardwaj | Member | 18-11-2022 | New Delhi |
25 | Bidisha Banerjee | Member | 18-11-2022 | Kolkatta |
26 | Charan Singh | Member | 18-11-2022 | Hyderabad |
27 | Anu Jagmohan Singh | Member | 18-11-2022 | Mumbai |
28 | Ashish Kumar Verma | Member | 18-11-2022 | Allahabad |
29 | Atul Chaturvedi | Member | 18-11-2022 | New Delhi |
30 | Prabhat Kumar | Member | 18-11-2022 | Mumbai |
31 | T Krishna Valli | Member | 22-11-2022 | Kochi |
32 | Madhu Sinha | Member | 09-12-2022 | Mumbai |
33 | Sanjiv Jain | Member | 04-01-2023 | Chennai |
34 | Mahendra Khandelwal | Member | 18-01-2023 | New Delhi |
35 | Shammi Khan | Member | 20-02-2023 | Ahmedabad |
36 | Virendrasingh Gyansingh Bisht | Member | 19-07-2023 | Mumbai |
37 | Lakshmi Gurung | Member | 19-07-2023 | Mumbai |
38 | Reeta Kohli | Member | 19-07-2023 | Mumbai |
39 | Rajeev Bhardwaj | Member | 19-07-2023 | Hyderabad |
40 | Manni Sankariah Shanmuga Sundaram | Member | 19-07-2023 | New Delhi |
41 | Chitra Ram Hankare | Member | 19-07-2023 | Ahmedabad |
42 | Rajeev Mehrotra | Member | 19-07-2023 | Jaipur |
43 | Sanjiv Dutt | Member | 19-07-2023 | Mumbai |
44 | Sanjay Puri | Member | 19-07-2023 | Hyderabad |
45 | Umesh Kumar Shukla | Member | 19-07-2023 | Chandigarh |
46 | Arvind Devanathan | Member | 19-07-2023 | Kolkatta |
47 | Ravichandran Ramasamy | Member | 19-07-2023 | Chennai |
48 | Venkataraman Subramaniam | Member | 19-07-2023 | Chennai |
49 | Velamur Govindan Venkata Chalapathy | Member | 19-07-2023 | Ahmedabad |
50 | Anil Raj Chellan | Member | 19-07-2023 | Mumbai |
51 | Charanjeet Singh Gulati | Member | 19-07-2023 | Mumbai |
52 | K R Saji Kumar | Member | 01-08-2023 | Mumbai |
53 | Sanjeev Ranjan | Member | 18-09-2023 | New Delhi |
54 | Jyoti Kumar Tripathi | Member | 11-10-2023 [7] | Chennai |
55 | K. Biswal | Member | Bengaluru |
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