Senior counsel Harish Salve, while seeking adjournment of the hearing till Friday, told the apex court bench headed by Justice Anil R. Dave that to establish their bonafide, they are depositing Rs.100 crore with the apex court registry.

Its net debt grew by Rs 817 crore during the second quarter of this financial year to Rs 19,944 crore. It also plans to raise Rs 3,600 crore through an issue of securities backed by commercial assets, to replace costlier debt.

In August, the Supreme Court had said that the total amount should be deposited within 3 months with its Registry, pending the outcome of the appeal filed by the DLF against the May 19 order of Competition Appellate Tribunal's upholding the penalty imposed by CCI.

Earlier, the government on Thursday raised excise duty on petrol and diesel by Rs 1.50 a litre each to help it achieve the fiscal deficit target for this year.

It had reported a net profit of Rs 100 crore in the same quarter the previous year.

Since the order that banned DLF and its chairman, K P Singh, from accessing the capital markets for three years, the company has struggled. It traded at about Rs 150 a share a little before the Sebi order. This dropped to a low of Rs 100 a couple of sessions after and has since recovered to about Rs 135.

DLF promoters including KP Singh, his children – Pia Singh and Rajiv Singh and two other key management personnel - DLF Managing Director T C Goyal and former MD Ramesh Sanka had approached SAT earlier this month for relief against the Sebi order.

After surging 6.59 per cent to Rs 135 in intra-day trade, shares of DLF finally ended at Rs 134.55, up 6.24 per cent at the BSE.

After hearing an appeal for interim relief by DLF, the Tribunal allowed the company to redeem mutual funds worth Rs 767 crore in the current month and further funds worth Rs 1,039 crore in December, the PTI report suggests.