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Issues: (i) Whether notice of the extraordinary meeting was validly served to members; (ii) Whether the proposed alteration of the memorandum of association amounted to a reduction of share capital requiring proceedings under the statutory reduction procedure.
Issue (i): Validity of service of notice of the extraordinary meeting on members.
Analysis: The company rules required that copies of notices be given at the houses occupied by respective shareholders. Evidence in the form of the bill collector's endorsement and affidavit stated that the notice was handed over to and left at the residence of the second respondent. The first respondent had been removed from the list of shareholders and no reliable contrary evidence was shown as to want of service to other shareholders.
Conclusion: The notice of the meeting was validly served on the second respondent and there was no adequate basis to invalidate the meeting for non-service.
Issue (ii): Whether the alteration of the memorandum of association was in effect a reduction of share capital requiring procedure under the statutory reduction provisions.
Analysis: The company's existing share capital was generated through a recurring deposit scheme under which subscribers paid Re.1 monthly for 84 months and became entitled to Rs.100, rendering such sums repayable and not forming a stable capital. The proposed alteration substituted a permanent share capital of Rs.100,000 in place of the precarious deposit-based capital and was adopted to regularise the capital structure in accordance with company law and the Registrar's directions. The change was made to create a permanent capital rather than to diminish a genuine existing capital by statutory reduction methods.
Conclusion: The alteration does not amount to a reduction of share capital within the statutory reduction procedure; it effects the introduction of a permanent share capital and is therefore properly proceeding under the confirmation route employed.
Final Conclusion: The alterations of the memorandum of association are necessary in the interests of the company and its creditors and depositors and are confirmed; the petition is allowed and costs are awarded to the petitioner.
Ratio Decidendi: Where purported share capital is constituted by repayable recurring deposits that do not constitute stable capital, an alteration to establish a permanent share capital to regularise the capital structure is not a reduction of capital requiring the statutory reduction procedure but is a permissible alteration of the memorandum to be confirmed under the applicable provision for alteration.
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