https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=96948 Public examination of a director or ex-director under section 196 of the Companies Act, 1913 was treated as an extraordinary power confined to compulsory winding-up, where the official liquidator had first made the required fraud-based report. Those jurisdictional safeguards were held absent in voluntary liquidation, and section 216 was construed only as enabling incidental matters in aid of a voluntary liquidator, not as a source for public examination. The wider reading accepted in the Bombay decision was rejected, and the statutory scheme was held not to permit public examination in a voluntary winding-up. en-us Fri, 10 Jan 1947 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:18:34 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=96948 Public examination of a director or ex-director under section 196 of the Companies Act, 1913 was treated as an extraordinary power confined to compulsory winding-up, where the official liquidator had first made the required fraud-based report. Those jurisdictional safeguards were held absent in voluntary liquidation, and section 216 was construed only as enabling incidental matters in aid of a voluntary liquidator, not as a source for public examination. The wider reading accepted in the Bombay decision was rejected, and the statutory scheme was held not to permit public examination in a voluntary winding-up. Case-Laws Companies Law Fri, 10 Jan 1947 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=96948