{"id":1032964,"date":"2026-09-03T08:59:00","date_gmt":"2026-09-03T03:29:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1032964"},"modified":"2026-09-03T09:31:00","modified_gmt":"2026-09-03T04:01:00","slug":"they-are-not-empowered-subhash-chandra-questions-nclt-power-to-form-5-member-bench-in-insolvency-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/09\/03\/they-are-not-empowered-subhash-chandra-questions-nclt-power-to-form-5-member-bench-in-insolvency-case\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;They are not empowered&#8217;: Subhash Chandra questions NCLT power to form 5-member bench in insolvency case"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Essel Group Chairman Subhash Chandra on Wednesday opposed the formation of a five-member bench by the NCLT to decide his personal insolvency case, contending that the tribunal does not have the power to constitute such a bench. <\/p>\n<p>Appearing for Chandra before the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), Senior Advocate Sasmit Patra termed the NCLT order &#8220;faulty and wrong&#8221; and said, &#8220;they are not empowered&#8221; to form a five-member bench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Essel Group Chairman Subhash Chandra on Wednesday opposed the formation of a five-member bench by the NCLT to decide his personal insolvency case, contending that the tribunal does not have the power to constitute such a bench. Appearing for Chandra before the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), Senior Advocate Sasmit Patra termed the NCLT order &#8220;faulty and wrong&#8221; and said, &#8220;they are not empowered&#8221; to form a five-member bench.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[82,4,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1032964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasting-the-telegraph","category-newspapers","category-the-telegraph"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1032964"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032964\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1032989,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1032964\/revisions\/1032989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1032964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1032964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1032964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}