https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=103523 A criminal complaint under the Companies Act was held not maintainable where it was not filed by a statutorily competent person, such as the Registrar or another authorised complainant, because cognizance could not validly be taken on an incompetent complaint. The proceeding was also found liable to be quashed because a material stay order had been suppressed before the Magistrate, indicating non-disclosure of relevant facts and abuse of process. On these grounds, the criminal case was treated as vitiated by want of competence and by mala fide conduct. en-us Wed, 22 Feb 1995 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 23 Feb 2012 14:56:45 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=103523 A criminal complaint under the Companies Act was held not maintainable where it was not filed by a statutorily competent person, such as the Registrar or another authorised complainant, because cognizance could not validly be taken on an incompetent complaint. The proceeding was also found liable to be quashed because a material stay order had been suppressed before the Magistrate, indicating non-disclosure of relevant facts and abuse of process. On these grounds, the criminal case was treated as vitiated by want of competence and by mala fide conduct. Case-Laws Companies Law Wed, 22 Feb 1995 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=103523