TMI Blog2019 (12) TMI 343X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... y following the requirements of law, making it clear that no directors in other companies can be disqualified without prior notice. As the Petitioner in this case is similarly placed to the Petitioners in the aforesaid batch of cases relating to the same impugned lists published in the website by the Respondents, she is entitled to identical relief that has been granted to them. Petition allowed. - W.P. No. 28809 of 2019 W.M.P. Nos. 28553 and 28555 of 2019 - - - Dated:- 3-10-2019 - THE HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE P. D. AUDIKESAVALU For Petitioner : Mr. P. Anbarasan For Respondents : Mr. J. Madanagopal Rao, Central Government Standing Counsel ORDER Heard Mr. P. Anbarasan, Learned Counse ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... the new Section 164(2)(a) of the 2013 Act using the expression for any continuous period of three financial years and in the light of Section 2(41) defining financial year as well as their own General Circular No.08/14 dated 4.4.2014, the first financial year would be from 1.4.2014 to 31.3.2015, the second financial year would be from 1.4.2015 to 31.3.2016 and the third financial year would be from 1.4.2016 to 31.3.2017, whereas the second respondent clearly admitted in paras 15 and 22 of the counter affidavit that the default of filing statutory returns for the financial years commenced from 2013-14, 2014-15 and 2015-16 i.e., one year before the Act 2013 came into force. This is the basic incurable legal infirmity that vitiates the ent ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ce to all the directors. (e) When the disqualification clause was not attracted to the directors of private companies under the old Act of 1956, the same cannot be allowed to take a retrospective effect under the new Act, when the provision of Section 164(2)(a) came into force only from 1.4.2014. This is also for one more reason that the failure to file the annual returns has been adequately taken care of by the penal provision under Section 92, making it clear that every officer of the company who is in default shall be punishable with imprisonment for a term which may extend to six months or with fine which shall not be less than fifty thousand rupees but which may extend to five lakh rupees, or with both. Again under Section ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... hallenged the provision of Section 164(2)(a), as the respondents have not followed the principles of natural justice, extinguishing the corporate life of the directors to the extent of disqualifying them to hold the directorship in the other companies, the said provision is liable to be read down, hence, Section 164(2)(a) is read down to the extent it disqualifies the directors in other companies which are scrupulously following the requirements of law, making it clear that no directors in other companies can be disqualified without prior notice. (g) However, it is made clear beyond any pale of doubt that the mischief of removal of the names of the companies by the Registrar of Companies and the disqualification of the directors ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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