https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=170880 Proceedings before the Company Law Board were held not to be proceedings in a court for Section 10 CPC, because the Board functioned under a special statute, was not constituted exclusively by judges, and merely possessed limited civil-court powers and decree-like enforceability. Regulation 44 of the Company Law Board Regulations, 1991 was read as preserving an inherent procedural power to stay proceedings where necessary to secure justice or prevent abuse of process. On the facts, however, the civil suit over gift deeds and partition and the company petition for oppression and mismanagement were not directly and substantially the same, so the stay was unjustified and the company petition was directed to proceed. en-us Wed, 06 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0530 Tue, 10 Jan 2023 17:46:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=170880 Proceedings before the Company Law Board were held not to be proceedings in a court for Section 10 CPC, because the Board functioned under a special statute, was not constituted exclusively by judges, and merely possessed limited civil-court powers and decree-like enforceability. Regulation 44 of the Company Law Board Regulations, 1991 was read as preserving an inherent procedural power to stay proceedings where necessary to secure justice or prevent abuse of process. On the facts, however, the civil suit over gift deeds and partition and the company petition for oppression and mismanagement were not directly and substantially the same, so the stay was unjustified and the company petition was directed to proceed. Case-Laws Companies Law Wed, 06 Nov 2013 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=170880