2020 (12) TMI 65

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.... respondents to activate the Director Identification Number and Digital Signature of the petitioners or get appointed or reappointed as Directors of any Company without any hindrance. 2. Heard the learned counsel on either side and perused the materials placed before this Court. 3. The learned counsel appearing for the petitioners requested that the order may be passed, in the same line as that of the First Division Bench passed in W.A.No.569 of 2020 etc. batch (Meethelaveetil Kaitheri Muralidharan V. Union of India, 2020 SCC OnLine Mad 1958). 4. The issue involved in these writ petitions is no more a res integra. It is to be stated that the Registrar of Companies (RoC) has been disqualifying the Directors under Section 164(2)(a) of the ....

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....r (DIN) by referring to the Rules 19, 10 and 11 of the said 2014 Rules and held as follows : "41. As is evident from the above, Rules 9 and 10 deals with the application for allotment of DIN. Rule 10(6) specifies that the DIN is valid for the life time of the applicant and shall not be allotted to any other person. Rule 11 provides for the cancellation or surrender or deactivation of the DIN. It is very clear upon examining Rule 11 that neither cancellation nor deactivation is provided for upon disqualification under Section 164(2) of CA 2013. In this connection, it is also pertinent to refer to Section 167(1) of CA 2013 which provides for vacating the office of director by a director of a Defaulting Company. As a corollary, it follows th....