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Voluntary liquidation · IBC s.59

HMT Chinar Watches Limited

CIN · U29190JK2000PLC002088 Company Jammu and Kashmir MCA · Dissolved (Liquidated)

The wind-down at a glance. Follow the recorded outcome, financials and people behind this company.

Process record Dissolution recorded

10 Mar 2022

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What did the wind-down return?

Reported financials Rs crore, shown in lakh below Rs 1 crore

Assets realised
Rs 8.04 Cr
Value realised from assets
Paid to creditors
Rs 10.00 L
100.0% of reported dues
Surplus to members
Rs 7.75 Cr
Reported surplus amount

Where the money went

Share of realisation
Creditors · 1.2%Rs 10.00 L
Expenses · 2.4%Rs 19.00 L
Members · 96.4%Rs 7.75 Cr

Amount due to creditors: Rs 10.00 L. Reported payout equals 100.0% of dues.

All financial figures & reading notes
Amounts as recorded for this voluntary liquidation
Realisation of assetsRs 8.04 Cr
Amount due to creditorsRs 10.00 L
Amount paid to creditorsRs 10.00 L
Liquidation expensesRs 19.00 L
Surplus to membersRs 7.75 Cr

"Not reported" means no figure is available. A reported zero is shown as zero. Registry capital further down the page is separate from liquidation proceeds, and so are any figures read from the NCLT order.

Where this wind-down sits

against every completed s.59 on the register
Time to dissolve1,081 days

463 days slower than the median of 618 days across 1,597 completed wind-downs

Cost of the wind-down2.4% of realisation

the median is 9.5%

Surplus returnedYes

72% of completed wind-downs returned a surplus to members

SizeRs 8.04 Cr

above the median realisation of Rs 66.00 L

Reading this record

This is a voluntary liquidation under IBC Section 59 — a solvent company choosing to wind up. Creditors are paid in full and costs met before any surplus returns to members; there is no haircut and no acquirer. Read assets realised, creditor payments, expenses and members' surplus separately. Here, Rs 7.75 Cr in surplus was returned to members.

The NCLT order

Read from the document itself

Bench
CHANDIGARH BENCH, CHANDIGARH
Case number
CP (IB) No.03/Vol./Chd/J&K/2020
Order date
10 Mar 2022

Dissolved in terms of Section 59(8) of the Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code, 2016 with effect from the date of the present order.

Statutory observations

Income Tax Department reported no objection to the voluntary liquidation as no proceeding and no liability is pending against the assessee.

10 Mar 2022 · CP (IB) No.03/Vol./Chd/J&K/2020 · 8 pages Read the order

Why the company wound up

In the order's own words

Since the losses were piling up and losses were much more than the paid up capital, the Government of India decided to close down the company.

What it was set up to do
to deal in the business of all kinds of watches, timepieces, clocks, chronometers, horological instruments and other devices for measuring time and components.
What it was doing by the end
manufacturing of watches

The wind-down, stage by stage

10 dated stages

1,081 days to dissolve
  1. 26 Feb 2019 Board resolution to wind up
  2. 25 Mar 2019 Liquidation commenced
  3. 29 Mar 2019 Public announcement
  4. 23 Apr 2019 Last date for creditors to claim
  5. 7 May 2019 Preliminary report
  6. 7 Aug 2020 Final report
  7. 13 Aug 2020 Final report filed with IBBI
  8. 19 Aug 2020 Final report filed with the ROC
  9. 10 Mar 2022 NCLT order
  10. 10 Mar 2022 Dissolved

Green marks a date from the IBBI register; blue marks a date read from an NCLT order.

The company behind the record

Identity, registration and capital

MCA status
Dissolved (Liquidated)
Company class
Public
Category
Company limited by shares
Sub-category
Non-government company
Listing
Unlisted
State
Jammu and Kashmir
ROC
ROC Jammu
Industry
Manufacturing (Machinery and Equipments)
PIN
181133
Incorporated
4 Sep 2000
Authorised capital
Rs 2.00 Cr
Paid-up capital
Rs 1.66 Cr
CIN
U29190JK2000PLC002088
Registered office
2nd Floor,S.C.O Block,Industrial Complex Bari Brahmana,,Jammu,Jammu,Jammu & Kashmir,181133-India
Company registry · MCA data as on 12 Jun 2026. Capital figures are shown separately from the wind-down financials.

Creditors and claims

As the order records them

Four claims received: Government of Karnataka - Commercial Taxes Department admitted partially and settled; Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax, Jammu settled; Jaiprakash admitted partially and settled; Sh. Ghulam Ahmad Gujree rejected.

Litigation and delays

The frictions the order records

Why it took as long as it did

The annual meeting got delayed due to the lockdown imposed due to COVID pandemic and was conducted after getting the accounts audited, soon after the lockdown was lifted.

Figures come from IBBI, NCLT, MCA and other official sources. Methodology · Report an error

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