New India Assurance Company Ltd. through its Manager vs Tata Steel Ltd.

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2024 Supreme(SC) 401

SURYA KANT, K. V. VISWANATHAN
New India Assurance Company Ltd. through its Manager – Appellant
Versus
Tata Steel Ltd. – Respondent

Advocates appeared:
For the Appellant(s) : Mr. Joy Basu, Sr. Adv. Ms. Nandini Gore, Adv. Ms. Sonia Nigam, Adv. Mr. Akhil Abraham Roy, Adv. Mr. Mohammad Shahyan Khan, Adv. Mr. Arvind Thapliyal, Adv. Mr. Siddhant Grover, Adv. Mr. Surya Kapoor, Adv. For M/S. Karanjawala & Co., AOR Mr. Sanjay Jain, Sr. Adv. Mr. Vishnu Mehra, Adv. Ms. Manjeet Chawla, AOR Ms. Harshita Sukhija, Adv. Mr. Nishank Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Yuvraj Sharma, Adv. Ms. Palak Jain, Adv.
For the Respondent(s): Mr. Joy Basu, Sr. Adv. Mrs. Manik Karanjawala, AOR Ms. Nandini Gore, Adv. Ms. Sonia Nigam, Adv. Mr. Akhil Abraham Roy, Adv. Mr. Mohammad Shahyan Khan, Adv. Mr. Arvind Thapliyal, Adv. Mr. Siddhant Grover, Adv. Mr. Surya Kapoor, Adv. Mr. Sanjay Jain, Sr. Adv. Mr. Vishnu Mehra, Adv. Ms. Manjeet Chawla, AOR Mrs. Usha Pant Kukreti, Adv. Mr. Nishank Tripathi, Adv. Mr. Yuvraj Sharma, Adv. Ms. Palak Jain, Adv. Ms. Harshita Sukhija, Adv.

JUDGMENT :

K.V. VISWANATHAN, J.

1. Leave granted in SLP (Civil) No. 10001 of 2009.

2. I.A. No. 48152 of 2022 in Civil Appeal No. 2759 of 2009 is filed by the Respondent [earlier known as M/s Bhushan Steel and Strips Ltd. hereinafter referred to as the “Complainant” or the “Insured”] seeking change of its name in the proceedings to ‘Tata Steel Ltd’. The Complainant/Insured has filed similar IAs in the connected appeals filed by it. It is stated that the name of the Complainant/Insured was changed to ‘Bhushan Steel Ltd.’ in the year 2007. Thereafter while these appeals were pending, the company underwent a Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process and was successfully taken over by ‘Tata Steel Ltd’ on 27.11.2018 and was renamed as ‘Tata Steel BSL Ltd’. Thereafter, it is seen that the Complainant/Insured further underwent a merger/amalgamation and was finally merged/amalgamated with ‘Tata Steel Ltd’ w.e.f. 11.11.2021. In view of the said facts, all the applications for change of name are allowed.

3. These are four Civil Appeals arising out of the proceedings in Original Petition No. 233 of 2000 before the National Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission, New Delhi [“NCDRC”].

4. Civil Appeal N

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2024 Supreme(SC) 401

SURYA KANT, K. V. VISWANATHANNew India Assurance Company Ltd. through its Manager – AppellantVersusTata Steel Ltd. – Respondent

Cases Referred (4)

SURYA KANT, K. V. VISWANATHAN
New India Assurance Company Ltd. through its Manager – Appellant
Versus
Tata Steel Ltd. – Respondent