Registrars of Companies have withdrawn the following number of prosecution cases, filed against various companies during the last three years and the current year:

	2012-13	2013-14	2014-15	Current Year
No. of cases withdrawn	4912	3375	2182	38

The cases withdrawn relate to defaults in filing of Balance Sheets and Annual Returns for respective years. Broadly, reasons for withdrawal are:

• The companies had already made the default good by filing the Balance Sheets and Annual Returns.
• The companies were found to be defunct/non active for a period of three years and above and continuing with prosecution in such cases would have been futile. Such cases were processed for striking off such companies u/s 560 of the Companies Act, 1956.
• The companies had compounded offences in terms of section 621A (4) (d) of the Companies Act, 1956.

This was stated by Shri Arun Jaitley, Union Finance Minister in written reply to a question in the Rajya Sabha today.

Withdrawal of prosecution cases for company filing defaults follows remedy, striking off, or compounding of offences. Withdrawal of prosecution cases was effected by Registrars of Companies for prosecutions arising from defaults in filing balance sheets and annual returns where defaults were remedied, companies were defunct and processed for striking off, or matters were resolved by compounding of offences under the Companies Act framework, representing an administrative discontinuance of prosecution proceedings for such filing defaults.