Ashok Gupta v. Union Of India

$~96 & 5 * IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI + W.P.(C) 4230/2018 & CM APP No. 16564/2018 ASHOK GUPTA ..... Petitioner Through:

Mr.Amit Sood, Adv.

versus UNION OF INDIA ..... Respondent Through:

Ms.Bharathi Raju, CGSC + W.P.(C) 3775/2018 AJAY CHADHA ..... Petitioner Through:

Mr.Amit Sood, Adv.

versus UNION OF INDIA ..... Respondent Through:

Ms.Bharathi Raju, CGSC

CORAM:

HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE RAJIV SHAKDHER

O R D E R

% 25.04.2018 CM APP No. 16565/2018 1.

Allowed, subject to all just exceptions.

W.P.(C) 4230/2018 2.

The petitioners has filed the present petitions, inter alia, impugning the list of disqualified directors published by the respondents to the extent that it includes the names of the petitioners. 3.

The petitioners claim that they were appointed as Director on the Board of companies namely:

i.

Dignity Pratisthan Private Limited, and, ii.

Bajarangbali Tieup Private Limited The learned counsel for the petitioners states that the said Companies has not carried out any business for the past two years and that their bank account has not been operated. Furthermore, the petitioners states that they had not filed the said Companys‟ financial statements and statutory returns as required under the extant provisions of law. The petitioners aver that it is on account of the aforementioned infraction of law, in terms of the company namely Dignity Pratisthan Private Limited (in short "DPPL") that their names came to be included in the impugned list. 4.

In this matter, I am informed by the learned counsel for the official respondent nos.1 & 2 that the issues raised in the captioned matter are similar to those issues which have been raised before Division Bench-I in various matters pending before it.

5.

Counsel for writ petitioner(s) are agreed that the interim directions passed by this court and those which have been passed by the Division Bench can form the basis of the disposal of the present writ petition with a right to revive the captioned petition, in respect of those issues which are not addressed by the Division Bench judgment.

6.

Accordingly, the captioned writ petition is disposed of with the following directions:- (i) The operation of list of disqualified directors in so far as the inclusion of the name(s) of the writ petitioner(s) is concerned, shall remain stayed. (ii) The DIN and DSC of the writ petitioner(s) will stand activated. (iii) The writ petitioner(s) will have liberty to apply under the Condonation of Delay Scheme, 2018 (hereafter "Scheme"). Permission is

granted to make the requisite filings in the form of hard copies. (iv) The writ petitioner(s) will deposit, if not deposited already, a sum of Rs.30,000/- qua each such company vis-a-vis whom steps for voluntary striking off are required to be taken. The said amount will be deposited in the form of Fixed Deposit Receipt (FDR) with the Registry of this court on or before 15.05.2018. The FDR will be created in favour of the ROC. (v) The amount deposited by way of FDR, as adverted to in clause (iv), will be in addition to other charges that would be payable under the Scheme. These sums will be deposited in the form of FDR as well. The writ petitioner(s) will also furnish their calculations in that behalf. 7.

The writ petitioner(s) will abide by the Division Bench-I order dated 21.03.2018, passed in a batch of writ petitions, the lead petition being W.P. (C) 9439/2017, titled: Atul Khosla & Anr. v. Union Of India and Ors. 8.

Liberty, however, is given both to the petitioner(s) and the official respondent nos.1 & 2 to revive the petition(s), in case, there are issues which are not covered by the Division Bench judgment. 9.

Needless to say, the disposal of the writ petition will not come in the way of the official respondent nos.1 & 2 presenting their point of view before the Division Bench.

10.

Pending application(s), if any, shall stand closed. 11.

Dasti under signatures of the Court master.

RAJIV SHAKDHER, J APRIL 25, 2018/neelam