Supreme Court to settle dispute over NFRA’s working
Subscribe to enjoy similar stories. The National Financial Reporting Authority (NFRA) has moved the Supreme Court seeking affirmation that its internal structure complies with the law after a Delhi High Court order last month quashed notices sent to auditors of two IL&FS group entities—Deloitte Haskins & Sells LLP and SRBC & Co.
LLP—saying there is no separation between the regulator’s audit quality review and adjudication functions, two persons familiar with the development said. The apex court will finally settle the dispute over whether NFRA’s structure is as per law and whether there is adequate separation of the functions of audit quality review and disciplinary proceedings, said one of the persons quoted above.
Also Read: NFRA weighs options after Delhi HC junks notices to auditors in IL&FS audit case Mint reported on 9 February that the regulator was weighing its options after the Delhi High Court on 7 February quashed the notices issued to the audit firms and some individuals on account of the ‘technical issue’ of the division of functions while disposing of several other challenges to NFRA’s authority, in the regulator’s favour. That included NFRA’s retrospective powers to review audits before the regulator’s creation in 2018.
“A special leave petition has been filed before the Supreme Court to clarify NFRA’s interpretation of the division of its functions is correct. The apex court has given time in April for further hearing and is expected to pass an order on this matter," said the person, who spoke on condition of not being named.
The Supreme Court heard the matter on 17 February and said the matter would be heard next in the last week of April, showed a court document seen by Mint. The apex court also noted
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