📢 Public Appeal – Justice for Kailash Parbat Hotel, Lonavala

Voice of a Wounded Senior Citizen - Demand for Live Streaming of NCLT Hearings and Inquiry into Cash-for-Orders Racket , Prevention of Judicial Design with Bench Fixers to Wind Up, Profitable Companies by Liquidation Racket in NCLT Mumbai and other Courts,  Immediate 

 

I, Kishore Keswani, a 63-year-old senior citizen and owner of the 30-year-old Kailash Parbat Hotel, Lonavala, invite every citizen, journalist, honest advocate, and small business owner to visit my hotel, share a chai or meal with us, and see how — despite fabricated orders, judicial harassment, and repeated threats — our hotel continues to run with dignity. Help us Grow for more 100 years amidst systematic failure and influence of so called "powerful people"

 

This is not just about one hotel. It is about a judicial design inside NCLT Mumbai: a design where fabricated orders are passed, bench fixers dictate outcomes, administrators are appointed without prayer, forensic audits are suppressed, and honest small businesses are slowly strangled until they collapse into liquidation rackets.

 

I have already shown courage twice: once, when my complaint against biased Members threatening to shut my business was published in the Economic Times (14.12.2023), and again, when my complaint led to the CBI arrest of the Deputy Registrar of NCLT Mumbai for demanding a bribe. Instead of protecting me, the system retaliated with more fabricated orders and more harassment.

 

Some shocking orders have been passed in my matter in 83 so called hearings , that clearly proves, the mind is not of the responsible and honest Judge,  but those who are shamefully misusing their intellect , experts in designing and framing favourable outcomes for undue gains and dishonest intention. Shocking conduct and threats and perjury has become the norm. Orders are passed in violation of principles of natural justice.

 

 

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📢 Systemic Failure of Transparency in NCLT

 

On one hand, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs (MCA) repeatedly insists that litigants must provide credible evidence of judicial impropriety. On the other hand, it is itself shielding the very evidence that could expose the truth — by not permitting live streaming or video recording of NCLT hearings, despite several complaints and representations.

 

The irony is that the NCLT already uses the Webex platform, which has a built-in feature for recording hearings. A simple click could make every proceeding transparent, preserving the actual record of what is said in court, and ensuring that fabricated orders or manipulated records can never take place.

 

When I formally requested video recording through Transfer Petition No. 23/2025, the Hon’ble President of NCLT refused, stating in his order dated 08.08.2025 that “no rules are being broken.” This, despite the fact that ample evidence was placed on record showing that rules were being broken, appellate directions were being ignored, and discrepancies were repeatedly surfacing in orders uploaded on the NCLT website.

 

Even the Supreme Court has expressed concerns about the way tribunal members are appointed and the lack of proper judicial training. These Members, often drawn from administrative or technical backgrounds (such as chartered accountants or IRS officers), are unfortunately left to decide matters of life and death for companies without sufficient accountability.

 

Recently, even a judge of a higher forum NCLAT, recused himself after disclosing that he had been “approached” in a matter. This shows how external influence can creep into judicial proceedings. Sadly, in NCLT, such approaches appear to have become normalized, leaving litigants like me at the mercy of opaque hearings where what is said is not what is recorded.

 

👉 This is why live streaming and video recording of all NCLT hearings is not just a reform but a necessity. Without it, corruption remains hidden, fabricated records go unchecked, and small businesses like mine continue to be strangled.

 

 

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✊ My Demands

 

1. Live streaming and video recording of all NCLT hearings across India to ensure transparency and accuracy of judicial records.

 

 

2. Independent inquiry by CBI & ED and Retd Judges into the “cash-for-orders” racket, bench fixers, and corruption in NCLT Mumbai.

 

 

3. Removal and suspension of Members found indulging in conspiracies to wind up healthy companies.

 

 

4. Immediate disciplinary action against bench-fixers and errant advocates involved in fabrication, suppression, or conflict of interest, perjury.

 

 

5. Accountability reforms — mandatory judicial training for technical members before appointing them as judges.

 

 

6. Protection for whistleblowers and litigants who expose corruption, so they are not punished with vindictive orders.

 

 

📢 My Appeal to the Public

 

🔹 This fight is not mine alone. It is the fight of every honest business, every employee, every senior citizen who could tomorrow face the same oppression.

 

I request you and respected authorities marked, including the MCA to support my petition here on Change.org, subscribe to my YouTube channel – Justice for Kailash Parbat Hotel, Lonavala, and share this appeal widely. Visit my hotel, stand with me, help us grow for 100 years and help build transparency and reform in NCLT.

 

Together, we can end the racket. Together, we can bring justice.

 

 

Background and  History 

 

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I, Kishore Keswani, a 63-year-old senior citizen and owner of the 30-year-old Kailash Parbat Hotel, Lonavala, make this appeal not just for myself, but for every honest small businessman in India who could one day face the same injustice.

 

On 02.11.2020, I filed a Company Petition under Sections 241 and 242 of the Companies Act, 2013, read with Section 447, to protect my business and the livelihood of over one hundred employees. This petition was filed to prevent fraudulent share transfers carried out by my own brothers, who sought to destabilize the company and push it into closure. These acts of fraud were designed not to build the business, but to break it — so that a profit-making and tax-paying enterprise could be shut down and handed over to outsiders.

 

Even during the darkest days of COVID-19, when the hospitality industry collapsed, I ensured that the hotel survived. There was no major profit, but there was also no loss — we stayed afloat, retained our staff, kept the property in good condition, and continued serving customers with dignity. At a time when survival itself was a struggle, instead of solidarity, I faced betrayal and fraud.

 

That is why I approached the Tribunal — to safeguard the company under Sections 241–242 (Oppression & Mismanagement) and to expose the fraud under Section 447 (Fraud). My sole purpose has always been to prevent the fraudulent winding up of Kailash Parbat Hotel, Lonavala, and to protect the livelihood of more than one hundred employees who depend on it.

 

 

But instead of protection, what I have faced for the past five years is nothing short of betrayal. From the very first hearing in my petition, instead of examining the fraud and safeguarding the business as the law under Sections 241–242–447 requires, I was pushed into 83 hostile hearings where my survival applications were suffocated, my submissions were suppressed, and orders were fabricated or twisted. Applications for release of staff salaries, vendor payments, GST dues, and electricity bills were never decided, while respondents’ repeated demands to shut the business were smiled upon.

 

What I expected was a fair judicial forum to stop oppression and fraud. What I got instead was a judicial design to delay, suffocate, and strangle a running business until it could be pushed into liquidation. At every stage, fabricated records replaced what was actually said in court. This has not only caused me financial loss but has destroyed my peace, dignity, and faith as a senior citizen fighting for survival.

 

Over time, it became clear that this was not just my fight. What I was facing inside the courtroom was part of a larger pattern — a cash-for-orders racket and liquidation design that has taken root in the system. Healthy and running companies are slowly strangled, survival applications are suffocated, administrators are planted without prayers, forensic audits are suppressed, and fabricated orders are uploaded that do not match what was dictated in open court.

 

This is not a matter of one litigant or one hotel. It is a system of bench fixers, registry manipulation, and professional misconduct that pushes honest small businesses into liquidation brackets only to feed the racket. The appointments of administrators become paper exercises, designed not for compliance but for control. The process itself has become a revenue stream — not for justice, but for those who thrive on liquidation and distress.

 

In one order of April 2024, an Administrator was appointed to “examine records” and “file a report” to determine the shareholding. The order specifically said that the matter shall not proceed until such report is filed and that once shareholding is decided, the petition will be concluded. This direction was never prayed for by me. It was judicially invented, and in practice, it paralysed my petition. For two years, no report has been filed. Instead of initiating contempt, the bench shielded the respondents. This farce shows the design: create artificial pre-conditions, stall the case indefinitely, let administrators enjoy appointments, and keep the petitioner strangled.

 

On 22.06.2023, I pressed for forensic audit to expose fraudulent share transfers. Oral relief was discussed, and both sides were asked to suggest auditors. But when the order was uploaded, everything had vanished. Nothing was recorded except appearances. This was not clerical error; it was deliberate suppression, because forensic audit would have exposed the fraud.

 

On 07.08.2023, respondents’ counsel handed unserved documents across the bar, and without my knowledge, the Bench entertained them. Worse, I was told to hand over my personal land in mediation, even though it is not subject matter of the case. This was not mediation, this was coercion.

 

On 27.02.2025, in CA 52/2025, the Bench orally allowed release of GST dues, electricity bills, and statutory payments. The video recording, which I have uploaded, clearly shows this. Yet the uploaded order recorded only appearances and pushed the matter later. Relief granted in open court was deleted from the order to suffocate my business.

 

On 10.06.2025, during a 60-minute hearing, I placed on record that respondents had admitted in earlier hearings (02.05.2024, 14.11.2024, 06.03.2025) that they want to shut my hotel, liquidate the company, or sell their shares. I clarified that I do not seek any relief for certain respondents, that they have no shareholding rights, and that repeated applications were being filed only to delay. In that very hearing, an advocate with conflicts intervened and said “it should not look like NCLT is not hearing the matter.” This was not legal submission; it was a stage-managed cover-up to protect NCLT’s image. Later, the order uploaded on  falsely recorded that I sought amendment, right when respondents were about to argue. Infact, the reality was  we requested to hear the core issue because the respondents were filing bulky applications.

This is pure fabrication, erasing respondents’ admissions and turning me into the obstructive party.

 

On 14.11.2024, submissions were made that no interlocutory application should be heard, not even forensic audit, and that the company should simply be wound up. This shocking submission is on video recording which I have uploaded, yet the Bench suppressed it in orders. The fabricated order of 02.09.2025 carried the same flavour, inserting lines never spoken in court: that “applications of both sides are against each other and will be resolved only at final hearing.” These words suffocated all my survival applications and mirrored exactly what bench fixers had demanded. This proves that orders are scripted outside court, not by Members in open court.

 

On 02.09.2025, I was unwell. My daughter informed the Bench and opposite party by email and proxy counsel also mentioned it. Initially, the Bench seemed inclined to adjourn. But suddenly, respondents’ counsel slipped unserved papers across the bar including inducements and instructions on what order to pass. Everything changed. My absence was exploited, ex parte orders were passed, and the uploaded order carried fabricated lines never dictated. Worse, to legitimise it, the order falsely recorded my daughter’s appearance even though she was not present. This was not error; it was a pre-determined script.

 

This is not adjudication; it is judicial design. Forensic audit is suppressed. Survival applications are strangled. Administrators are appointed without prayer. Violence against me is ignored. Advocates with conflicts are indulged. Fabricated lines are inserted. Respondents’ admissions are erased. This is scripting, not justice.

 

Meanwhile, respondents are using external pressure to finish me. Bank accounts are frozen, FDA is approached to cancel licenses, Income Tax imposes false penalties, and police come with goons to threaten murder. My five-year audit is kept pending to justify winding up later. The fabricated order of 02.09.2025 suffocated even my prayers for GST and electricity. Inside court, I am suffocated by fabricated records; outside court, I am trapped by fabricated proceedings. This is a coordinated conspiracy.

 

Even my latest order dated 02.09.2025 violates natural justice. What was dictated was not recorded. Two fabricated lines were added, suffocating my company and pushing it to winding up. Respondents openly declare in court that they want to shut my business because orders can be manipulated. This shows how the record is in control of bench fixers, not the Bench. I therefore request the Ministry of Corporate Affairs to view all my video recordings uploaded on my channel Justice for Kailash Parbat Hotel, Lonavala as evidence of judicial impropriety and systematic design to wind up my company and take remedial measures.

 

On one hand, MCA always demands evidence of impropriety. On the other hand, it shields the very evidence by refusing live streaming and video recording of hearings. The irony is that NCLT uses Webex, which has built-in recording. With a single click, every hearing could be preserved. When I requested recording, the President refused, saying “no rules are being broken,” even though ample evidence showed rules were being broken, appellate orders ignored, and discrepancies rampant. Even the Supreme Court has remarked on the lack of proper training for such Members, often appointed from technical services. In higher forums, judges recuse if approached. In NCLT, approaches have become routine. Without recording, fabricated orders flourish.

 

This shows the deeper problem: NCLT has become a revenue stream for a liquidation racket. Bench fixers, registry, and even politicians benefit. Appointments are treated as revenue posts, and liquidation of small businesses becomes a profit model. The system protects itself while suffocating honest businesses.

 

The damages inflicted upon me are enormous. My hotel has lost over ₹100 crore. Staff salaries and vendor dues were strangled. Cars were sold to keep the business afloat. Bank accounts frozen. Guests and employees threatened by goons. My dignity as a senior citizen has been destroyed by five years of harassment, 83 hearings, fabricated orders, and denial of survival.

 

I therefore demand: immediate withdrawal of judicial work from biased Members, registration of FIRs under BNS 2023 for fabrication of records, CBI and ED inquiry into cash-for-order racket, suspension of errant advocates and bench fixers, polygraph tests of Members and advocates, contempt proceedings for non-compliance of appellate and presidential orders, and live streaming of all hearings. I also claim ₹100 crore in damages for judicial harassment, financial exhaustion, and mental trauma.

This is just a short representation, scratching the surface.

--Disclaimer: I, Kishore Keswani, senior citizen, place this representation in good faith and public interest. It is not intended to defame any individual but to expose systemic misconduct and to seek reforms, accountability, and justice.

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