The Bruhat Bengaluru Mahanagara Palike (BBMP), the municipal corporation of Bengaluru city, till recently, managed core urban municipal functions in Bengaluru, including property tax administration, building regulations, and licensing.

High-value debt recovery cases play a disproportionately important role in India’s financial system. While such cases reportedly constitute a very small fraction of the total caseload before Debt Recovery Tribunals (DRTs), they account for a dominant share of the total value of claims, prompting policy measures such as the creation of special DRT benches for cases above specified monetary thresholds.

When two statutes with strong and overlapping powers apply to the same situation, a conflict of authority is inevitable.