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2022 (4) TMI 1602 - MADRAS HIGH COURTVicarious liability of Director of the Company - failure to reply to statutory notice - Petitioner submitted that the Petitioner is the Director of the Company, but she was not in-charge of the day to day affairs of the Company - HELD THAT:- On consideration of the rival submissions and on perusal of the records, the submission of the learned Counsel for the Petitioner cannot at all be considered at this stage. As rightly pointed out by the learned Counsel for the Respondent, this subject matter is to be considered during trial before the learned Metropolitan Magistrate. In the light of the guidelines issued by the Hon'ble Supreme Court in STATE OF HARYANA AND OTHERS VERSUS CH. BHAJAN LAL AND ANOTHER [1992 (12) TMI 234 - SUPREME COURT], to the Hon'ble High Court regarding the quashing of criminal complaint. What are all argued by the learned Counsel for the Petitioner can be agitated as valuable defence of the Accused before the learned Metropolitan Magistrate. These Criminal Original Petitions are dismissed with direction to the XVIII Metropolitan Magistrate, Saidapet, Chennai to proceed with the trial and dispose of the case within a period of three months from the date of receipt of a copy of this order or from the date of uploading this order on the website of this Court.
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