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Allow IHH Healthcare to make an open offer: Fortis plea in Supreme Court

The open offer would have been triggered after IHH Healthcare bought a 31.1% stake in Fortis Healthcare for Rs 4,000 crore on November 13

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The modified new offer shall remain valid and binding in its entirety until June 6

Aashish Aryan New Delhi
Fortis Hospitals Limited on Thursday approached the Supreme Court urging it to allow Malaysia's IHH Healthcare to make an open offer to shareholders for purchase of Fortis shares, in line with norms of the Securities and Exchange Board of India (SEBI). In its pleadings before the top court on Thursday, Fortis said that the open offer was the right of the shareholders and that should not be undermined  especially since the former promoters of Fortis Healthcare, Shivinder Mohan Singh and Malvinder Mohan Singh no longer held a controlling stake in the company.

The open offer would have been triggered after

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