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2020 (12) TMI 1295

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..... 12.2018 by the RoC. Issue decided in the case of MEETHELAVEETIL KAITHERI MURALIDHARAN, KAMAL ANEESMOHAMED, SATHISH KUMAR GOPAL, GOVINDASAMY BALASUBRAMANIAM, PAARI SENTHIL KUMAR, PAARI DHANALAKSHMI, VERSUS UNION OF INDIA, THE REGISTRAR OF COMPANIES TAMIL NADU, CHENNAI, [ 2020 (10) TMI 595 - MADRAS HIGH COURT] where it was held that if a person is a director of five companies, which may be referred to as companies A to E, if the default is committed by company A by not filing financial statements or annual returns, the said director of company A would incur disqualification and would vacate office as director of companies B to E. However, the said person would not vacate office as director of company A. If such person does not vacate off .....

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..... of the first respondent on 01.11.2017 disqualifying the Directors. Yet another list of Directors were disqualified on 17.12.2018 by the RoC. 5. Several of the Directors so disqualified under the above mentioned notifications dated 08.09.2017 and 01.11.2017 challenged the same before this Court and this Court by order dated 03.08.2018 in Bhagavan Das Dhananjaya Das V.Union of India, (2018) 6 MLJ 704, allowed the batch of writ petitions and set aside the aforesaid notifications/orders. 6. The notification dated 17.12.2018, which was uploaded in the website by the first respondent on 18.12.2018 was challenged on the strength of the judgment of this Court in Bhagavan Das case (cited supra). However, they were dismissed by this Court, and .....

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..... nies A to E, if the default is committed by company A by not filing financial statements or annual returns, the said director of company A would incur disqualification and would vacate office as director of companies B to E. However, the said person would not vacate office as director of company A. If such person does not vacate office and continues to be a director of company A, it is necessary that such person continues to retain the DIN. In this connection, it is also pertinent to point out that it is not possible to file either the financial statements or the annual returns without a DIN. Consequently, the director of Defaulting Company A, in the above example, would be required to retain the DIN so as to make good the deficiency by fil .....

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