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1983 (11) TMI 258

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..... liquidator, Rs. 6,000 is still due to the company under the agreement which respondents No. 1 and 2 have failed to pay. Respondents No. 3 to 5 are the ex-directors of the company who were sought to be made personally liable under sections 542 and 543 of the Companies Act. Anand J., however, directed that proceedings against them would remain held over. Mr. Nand Kishore is not pressing these proceedings and states that if need be, appropriate independent action will be initiated. As regards respondents Nos. 1 and 2, notices were issued to them. The order dated November 3, 1982, of Anand J. shows that it had been reported that both these respondents had died. Thereafter, the official liquidator has been obtaining adjournments for taking .....

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..... ontended that Order 22, rule 4, applies to suits only and that the present proceedings being under section 446 of the Companies Act, they cannot be treated as a suit. However, he ignores that as per provisions contained in section 141, CPC, the procedure provided in the Code in regard to suits has to be followed as far as it can be made applicable in all proceedings in any court of civil jurisdiction. In other words, proceedings set in motion on moving of applications, are as well governed by the same procedure as is applicable to suits, unless there is anything in the context to suggest otherwise, or they cannot be made applicable. None such has been shown which should render the present proceedings as not governed by the procedure applica .....

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..... on 446(2)( b ) was competent and the official liquidator need not file a suit under section 446(2)( a ). The matter relating to the bringing of legal representatives of the deceased respondent was not in controversy at all in that decision. Reliance was next placed upon another Full Bench decision of the Punjab Haryana High Court given in Ram Kola v. Assistant Director, Consolidation of Holdings, Punjab, Rohtak, AIR 1977 P H 87, is again of no assistance to the official liquidator as the question related to the applicability of the provisions of the Code of Civil Procedure to writ jurisdiction of the court. In this regard, the Explanation to section 141, CPC, itself makes clear that the expression "proceedings" under that section .....

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