Government Rules on CIBIL Status Update for Settlement of Personal Loans / Credit Card Accounts

Now that we are getting lot of e-mails on the subject of what does the Actual RBI / Ministry of Finance Rules state on the Status of a Loan Account / Credit Card mutually settled between the Bank and the Customer. We had asked the RBI this Question,

In case of a Loan / Credit Card account settled mutually between the Bank and the Customer after the customer had defaulted on payments, I would like to know, what the Bank is supposed to update at Credit Bureau – CIBIL for “STATUS” column of this particular account under consideration in accordance with RBI rules / regulations / guidelines / act / etc. Kindly provide photocopy of appropriate RBI legal document / documents relevant to this subject.

RBI’s Response to the Question is as follows,

You may kindly

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