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NBFCs cannot be regulated by state enactments, says Supreme Court

The top court said it was of the considered opinion that the Kerala Act and the Gujarat Act will have no application to NBFCs registered under the RBI Act and regulated by RBI

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The Supreme Court Tuesday held that Non­-Banking Financial Companies (NBFCs) regulated by the Reserve Bank of India cannot be regulated by state enactments.

A bench of Justices Hemant Gupta and V Ramasubramanian said NBFCs play a very vital role in contributing to the financial health of the country whose operations are controlled by RBI.

Therefore, to say that RBI has no say in such a matter of vital interest, will strike at the very root of the statutory control vested in RBI, it said.

“It may be true that many times RBI may not be controlling the rate of

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