P.V.Chandran vs The Kerala Financial Corporation on 29 August, 2008
20. In our considered view, the learned senior counsel would have
been fully justified in his submission that in view of Section 32G of the
Financial Corporation Act and Section 32(2) of the Debt Recovery Tribunals
Act, the Financial Corporation can enforce its liability only as provided under
those provisions and not by resorting to the provisions of the Kerala Revenue
Recovery Act. But, in view of the notification issued by the State
Government, in exercise of its power under Section 71 of the Act, wherein the
provisions of the Revenue Recovery Act are also made applicable to the
recovery of amounts due from any person or class of persons to Kerala
Financial Corporations Act, it is difficult to accept the submissions made by
the learned Senior Counsel Sri.R.D.Shenoy. Keeping in view this aspect, a
Division Bench of this Court in the case of Usman vs. Kerala Financial
Corporation, 2007(2) KLT 604 has observed, that, "Government of Kerala
has issued notification under S.71 of the Revenue Recovery Act making the
provisions of the Act applicable to recovery of amounts due to the Kerala
Financial Corporation, on finding that the amount recovered by proceeding
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under S.29 of the SFC Act is not sufficient to satisfy the debt due from the
Company, the KFC was perfectly justified in proceeding against the personal
guarantors for the loan given to the Company by resorting to proceedings
under the Revenue Recovery Act. Mode of recovery under the SFC Act is in
addition to and not in derogation of other modes of recovery and therefore it
is perfectly within the powers of the KFC to invoke the Kerala Revenue
Recovery Act to realize the amounts due to them despite the provisions of the
SFC Act".