The recent amendment in the Fast-Track Merger regime reflects a positive step towards business efficiency. By allowing unlisted companies and a holder with its subsidiary to opt for the fast-track framework, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs aligns with its intention of easing the amalgamation route. While this expansion was done with good intent, the interim period of approval laid out for one of the newly introduced categories has opened a route for possible evasion. This article analyses the new fast-track regime as a duped route for possible bypass. By analysing it through the lens of Vedanta’s demerger scheme, it highlights how this route could have been a simple tool to bypass judicial/administrative scrutiny. Lastly, it proposes a two-stage solution for addressing this issue: (i) a continuous debt disclosure model with mandatory disclosures in the sensitive interim period where the potential of breach is high; and (ii) extension of the administrative role of Registrar of Companies and Official Liquidator to keep a final check on potential misuse of this newly expanded route.