Plea against NCLT acting president appointment infructuous: Delhi HC
The Delhi High Court dismissed as infructuous a petition challenging the appointment of Bachu Venkat Balaram Das as acting president of the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT), following the central government's appointment of former high court judge Justice Anupinder Singh Grewal as the tribunal's new president. The petitioner, technical member Kaushalendra Kumar Singh, had argued he was senior to Das based on earlier appointment and thus entitled to the acting role. With the permanent appointment now made, the court found the issue moot and closed the proceedings.
- ▪The Delhi High Court ruled that the petition challenging Bachu Venkat Balaram Das's appointment as NCLT acting president was infructuous after a new president was appointed.
- ▪Justice Anupinder Singh Grewal, former judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, was appointed as the new president of the NCLT for a five-year term.
- ▪Petitioner Kaushalendra Kumar Singh claimed he was senior to Das based on an earlier appointment date and should have been named acting president.
- ▪The Centre had justified Das's appointment by citing a convention of assigning the acting president role to the senior-most judicial member.
- ▪The petitioner first approached the high court in March, withdrew the plea in April to approach the Central Administrative Tribunal, which later declined jurisdiction.
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Plea against NCLT acting president appointment infructuous: Delhi HCPlea against NCLT acting president appointment infructuous: Delhi HCPublished on: Apr 30, 2026 12:26 PM ISTPTIShare viaCopy link New Delhi, The Delhi High Court on Thursday said the petition by an NCLT technical member challenging the appointment of Bachu Venkat Balaram Das as acting president was infructuous in view of the Centre appointing a former high court judge to the post of the tribunal's president.Plea against NCLT acting president appointment infructuous: Delhi HCA bench of Justices C Hari Shankar and O P Shukla noted that the Centre has cleared the appointment of Justice Anupinder Singh Grewal, former judge of the Punjab and Haryana High Court, as the president of the National Company Law Tribunal ."With that,…
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