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MCA Directed to Set Aside Disqualification of Directors in Light of Companies Start Fresh Scheme, 2020 [READ ORDER]

Lawstreet Journal 7 Sep 2020 10:07pm

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A petition was filed in Delhi High Court by the petitioners Mr. Sandeep Agarwal and Ms. Kokila Agarwal, both of whom are directors in two companies namely Koksun Papers Private and Kushal Power Projects Private Limited. 

The petition was filed to challenge the disqualification of directors due to the non-filing of financial statements and annual returns. On 30th June 2017, Kushal Power was struck off from the Register of the Companies. The Petitioners, being directors of Kushal Power were also disqualified with effect from 1st November 2016 for a period of five years till 31st October 2021 “under Section 164(2)(a) of the Companies Act, 2013.” Their Director Identification Numbers (“DIN”) and Digital Signature Certificates (“DSC”) have also been canceled because of which they are unable to carry on the business and file returns etc. in the active company Koksun Papers. 

Mr. Nikhil Verma, ld. counsel appearing for the Petitioners relied upon “Sections 164(2) and 167(1)(a) of the Act” to submit that the said sections were materially amended by the Companies Amendment Act, 2018, and introduction of the disqualification in proviso “under Section 167(1)(a),” comes into effect only on 7th May 2018. Thus, a conjoint reading of “Section 164(2) and 167(1)(a)” would show that the disqualification would not apply in a retrospective manner. He took the support of the judgment of the Court in Mukut Pathak & Ors. v. Union of India & Ors.

Further, he submitted that Koksun Papers is entitled to take benefit of the Companies Fresh Start Scheme (CFSS) 2020 dated… Continue Reading...


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