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Due amounts due, an amount 'due' normally refers to an amount which the creditor has a right to recover. Wharton in Law Lexicon defines 'due' as anything owing; that which one contracts to pay another. 'Amounts due' under, s. 71 are those amounts which the creditor could have recovered had he filed a suit, State of Kerala v. V.R. Kalliyanikibty, (1999) 3 SCC 657 (661). [Kerala Revenue Recovery Act, 1968, ss. 71, 702, 69(2)