Advocate Bishwajit Dubey, appearing on behalf of ICICI Bank, said JP Associates has defaulted on a payment of Rs 1,260 crore. JP Associates' total debt stood at Rs 31,522 crore as on March 31, 2017, according to its annual report. JP Associates figured in the second list of insolvency accounts which the RBI had sent to the banks in August 2017 asking them to resolve these cases outside the NCLT till December 2017. Failing this they would have to go for insolvency proceedings, the RBI had said. In June 2017 the lenders had approved a restructuring plan for JP Associates according to which its land parcels would be carved out into a special purpose vehicle for selling to prospective buyers on a long-term payment basis to reduce the company's debt. In June 2017 the company also managed to close the sale of its cement units to UltraTech Cement which brought down its debt by Rs 10,000 crore.