Invocation of Bank Guarantee
A bank is obliged to honor any legitimate claim within the validity period of the guarantee. If the invocation is in order and there is no court prohibiting the payment, the bank is required to honor payment to the beneficiary.

Before making the payment to the beneficiary, bank informs the applicant about the invocation of the guarantee and asks him to arrange for funds for payment of claim amount.

In UP State Sugar Corporation v. Sumac International Ltd 1 it was held as, above, that when an unconditional bank guarantee is given or accepted, the beneficiary is entitled to realize such bank guarantee irrespective of pending disputes and that a bank guarantee constituted a bargain between the two parties, by which the banker creditor was unconditionally required to pay the amount in question.

In the case of Syndicate Bank v. Vijay Kumar 2 the Court was required to enforce the bank guarantee simplifiers without probing into the nature of the transactions between the Bank and the customer that led to the furnishing of the bank guarantee.

In the case of Road Machines India (p) Ltd v. Projects & Equipment Corporation India 3 it was observed that the invocation of a bank guarantee does not necessarily have to be initiated by setting out the entire case in the form of a plaint with a specific cause of action, and that it was a commercial document and not a statutory notice or a pleading. It was further stated that if the bank concerned understood that the beneficiary in terms of the guarantee was invoking the guarantee, the bank guarantee may be invoked. It is sufficient if there is substantial compliance in terms of the guarantee in the notice that may be issued. However, banks may even delay giving a response to the demand for notice in the hope that the specified claim period expires.

Bank guarantee typically contain statements such that the assurances would be respected just by an underlying composed request with no object. The sum requested must be thought about inside the certification contract.

The contracts may likewise contain provisions that give the recipient a one-sided appropriate to decide the topic of default of the borrower. In such cases there is no prudence with respect to the banks and the bank ensures basically ends up total in nature.

The beneficiary must intimate the bank or the guarantor that the occasion for which the certification was issued has happened or did not occur and that, as far as the assurance, it has been conjured requesting installment. The certification ought to be summoned inside the predetermined period expressed inside the records, and not a short time later as the agreement would have arrived at an end.
 

Cancellation of Bank Guarantee

The beneficiary of the guarantee shall invoke the bank guarantee on or before the expiry date of the guarantee. The bank is discharged from its liability if no claim is received by it on or before validity period mentioned in the guarantee. When an original guarantee issued by the bank, not returned to the bank for cancellation after the expiry of guarantee, the procedure for cancellation of expired guarantee adopted by the banks is that a registered notice is sent to the beneficiary of the guarantee to return the original guarantee immediately. If no reply is received or original guarantee is not surrendered for cancellation, the guarantee can be cancelled by the bank after waiting for a reasonable time.

Judicial Interference
The Supreme Court has along these lines made it unmistakable that the obligation of the bank stays flawless and does not stop with any pending question as for the essential basic exchange between the recipient and the loan boss. In any case, this has dependably been liable to a solitary condition in that the bank ensure must be unrestricted or total in nature. The terms of the bank ensure are pivotal in deciding the idea of the bank ensure, and regardless of whether it is an unshakable certainty or a contingent one.

An unavoidable duty either as affirmed bank ensure or irreversible letter of acknowledge can't be meddled for since visit court mediation would not be with regards to the specific reason and protest of bank ensures because of a paranoid fear of endangering what frames the simple premise of business exchanges. When in doubt particularly on account of unlimited or supreme bank ensures, the banks must respect their duties according to the terms of the agreement, regardless of any debate between the client and the save money as for the essential contract. The Courts are in this manner hesitant to give an order anticipating installment or meddling with the risk of the bank to pay the sum due on the certification.

The Courts have separated out two special cases to the general control of non-impedance by the Courts, in particular:
(i) fraud and
(ii) the subsequent of unrecoverable unfairness or mischief.

The accompanying cases additionally represent this point in detail: For the situation of Bolvinter Oil SA v. Pursue Metropolitan 4 it was expressed that a directive might be allowed where it is demonstrated that the bank realizes that any interest for installment officially made or which may from there on be made will obviously fake; however the confirmation must be clear with regards to the reality of misrepresentation and with regards to the bank's information, and it can't lay on the uncorroborated proclamation of the client or else hopeless harm should be possible to a bank's credit.

End-Notes
1(1997) 1 SCC 568
2AIR 1992 SCC 1066
3AIR 1983 Cal 91
4 (1984) 1 WLR 392.