NCLT transfers eight members with immediate effect

In an organisational reshuffle, the National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) has transferred eight members to different benches across India with immediate effect.

According to a notification issued by the NCLT Registrar on Thursday, the list comprises four judicial members and four technical members.

"The members shall move to their new stations of posting, after lockdown restrictions on movement are withdrawn by the central government and the respective state governments," the notification said.

The tribunal has a strength of 23 Judicial members including its Acting President and 25 technical members, as per NCLT website.

Besides, NCLT in another notification said it will form a new bench for Cuttack, comprising its Judicial Member Sucharita R and Technical Member Satya Ranjan Prasad.

"This bench shall sit at NCLT Cuttack on alternate Wednesday, Thursday and Friday, per fortnight till further orders," it said adding that it would come into force from May 4.

However, it also added that during the lockdown,Kolkata bench of NCLT would "continue to hear urgent matters of NCLT Cuttack through video conferencing."