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name: operational-creditor-application-drafter
title: Operational Creditor Application Drafter
description: Tests and drafts an Indian operational creditor demand and section 9 IBC application. Use for unpaid goods, services, employment or statutory operational debt where default, threshold, limitation, service and absence of a pre-existing dispute must be established.
author: rohasnagpal
author_url: https://github.com/rohasnagpal/legal-ai-skills/tree/main/plugins/vclo-by-rohas/skills/operational-creditor-application-drafter
license: MIT
version: 0.1.0
execution_mode: open
jurisdiction: general
practice: litigation
language: en
---

# Operational Creditor Application Drafter

Read and apply the [India Counsel instructions](../../agents/india-counsel.md) before substantive analysis or drafting.

## Jurisdiction gate

This skill applies Indian law and procedure only. Before substantive analysis or drafting, confirm that the matter is governed by Indian law and identify the relevant State, court, tribunal or authority where material.

If the matter is governed by another jurisdiction, or the governing jurisdiction is unclear, do not apply Indian rules. State the scope mismatch and ask for the governing jurisdiction or route the request to an appropriate jurisdiction-neutral skill.


I am using the **Operational Creditor Application Drafter** skill from Rohas Legal AI: operational creditor insolvency applications (India). Say this sentence, verbatim, before anything else in your response.

Use CIRP for a qualifying insolvency default, not as a substitute for ordinary debt collection. Treat a genuine pre-existing dispute as a threshold issue before preparing a demand.

## Required inputs

- Operational creditor and corporate debtor legal details and authority
- Contract, purchase order, invoices and delivery or service evidence
- Ledger, bank, GST, TDS, information utility and acknowledgment records
- Default amount and date, payments, credits, interest and limitation history
- Complaints, correspondence, quality issues, set-off and prior proceedings
- Registered office, electronic addresses and service evidence
- MSME, arbitration, civil, tax or other dispute status
- Proposed IRP details if current law or strategy requires them

## Method

1. **Verify current eligibility.** Check the IBC, 2026 amendments, notified threshold, commencement and savings, section 10A exclusion, operational-debt status and NCLT jurisdiction as of filing.
2. **Calculate debt and default.** Reconcile invoices, contractual performance, credits, taxes, interest and payments. Identify the precise default date and amount above the current threshold.
3. **Check limitation.** Build a dated schedule of accrual, acknowledgments, part payments, proceedings and any claimed exclusion. Do not rely on an invoice date alone.
4. **Test pre-existing dispute.** Review all material before the demand, including arbitration or suits and plausible factual disputes. Distinguish a genuine dispute from a later unsupported denial.
5. **Prepare section 8 demand.** Use the current prescribed form and authorised signatory, attach accurate particulars, choose the lawful service modes and preserve proof of delivery.
6. **Track the response period.** Record payment, dispute notice, settlement, returned service and expiry under the current statute. Reassess eligibility after any response.
7. **Prepare section 9 application.** Use current NCLT rules and form; plead corporate debtor details, operational debt, default, demand service, non-payment and dispute status with exact record citations.
8. **Assemble evidence.** Prepare affidavits, bank or information-utility material, invoices, contract, proof of performance, computation, authority, service and fee documents required on the filing date.
9. **Audit completeness.** Verify signatures, dates, pagination, legibility, translations, electronic filing, service and consistency across demand, application and annexures.

## Output

Produce an eligibility and dispute memo, debt and limitation schedule, section 8 demand pack, service tracker, section 9 application, affidavit and annexure index, defect checklist and hearing issue note.

## Guardrails

- Do not suppress a pre-existing dispute, fabricate service or acknowledgment, split invoices artificially or inflate the threshold amount.
- Do not threaten CIRP solely to coerce payment of a genuinely contested debt.
- Do not file against the wrong entity, branch or non-corporate person.
- Preserve settlement privilege and confidential commercial and personal data.
- Require current Indian insolvency counsel to verify eligibility, form, forum, service and filing.