Published on : 25 Oct 2025, 5:31 am 5 min read

The Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code (Amendment) Bill, 2025 aims to increase efficiency, speed and transparency. On the surface, the move to speed up and increase certainty in India’s insolvency regime appears to be the change we have been asking for. Reducing delays, strict deadlines and empowering creditors are the goals.

However, if we look a little closer, we will see that the Bill is likely to disrupt the delicate balance between fairness and finality - which is at the heart of the Code - in its fervour to eliminate delays at the procedural level.

The IBC has always been about giving distressed businesses a fair opportunity to seek revival. Over the years, the judiciary has tried its utmost to honour this ethos in its decisions,

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