The Mittal-owned company told the SC it would lift the escrow on Rs 7,000 crore and pay the money owed by Uttam Galva and KSS Petron -- the defaulting companies in which the steel tycoon is classified as promoter -- if it gets to bid successfully for Essar Steel.

Numetal's first bid was rejected due to the 25% share owned by Rewant Ruia, the son of Essar Steel founder Ravi Ruia, since he was deemed a related party. JSW Steel bought out this contentious stake ahead of the second bidding round

World's largest steel producer ArcelorMittal on Monday offered Rs 42,000 crore to acquire Essar Steel Ltd, upstaging a Rs 37,000 crore bid by Russia's VTB Group-backed Numetal.

Numetal's first bid was rejected due to the 25% share owned by Rewant Ruia, the son of Essar Steel founder Ravi Ruia, since he was deemed a related party.

Failing to find resolutions for stressed power sector companies, lenders have decided to refer 11 companies, including Prayagraj Power Generation, GMR Chhattisgarh Energy and Jaiprakash Power Venture, to the National Company Law Tribunal.

Reports say that both JSW and Tata look to submit bids for Usha Martin's 1 MT steel unit.

Last financial year, PNB made recovery of about Rs 5,400 crore. However, in the first quarter of current fiscal, the bank has done recovery of over Rs 7,700 crore.

At a hearing before a two-member bench of the National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT), senior lawyer Abhishek Manu Singhvi, appearing for ArcelorMittal, said \"NuMetal and Rewant Ruia are alter ego of each other. They both are the same.\"

The committee favours banks and overseas investors funding for the bad bank. The proposed 'bad bank' should also appoint experts from outside to tackle the stressed assets issue, suggests the panel.

Evergreening is a practice whereby banks extend even more loans to debt-laden companies to help them repay previous loans and hopefully earn enough revenue along the way to get out of trouble.

NCLT's only success stories so far have seen banks taking a significant hair-cut and settling for recovery of Rs 50,000 crore.

Under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, the sale process has almost been completed in three cases -- Bhushan Steel, Electrosteel Steels and Monnet Ispat and Energy. There is less clarity in the other cases when the 270 day timeframe for resolution ends around now.

The bankruptcy proceedings would force Indian banks to book heavy losses. They are now focussed on mini- mising the damage

The whistle-blower has claimed that the ICICI Bank had favoured Ruia brothers of Essar group for 'round-tripping' investments into Chanda Kochhar's husband Deepak Kochhar's NuPower Group - a firm which is at the centre of current Videocon loan probe.  

ICICI Bank has instituted an independent inquiry into allegations raised by an whistleblower against CEO Chanda Kochhar of having given out huge loans to certain business groups who in return extended benefits to companies run by her husband and brother-in-law.