2021 (1) TMI 522

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....e Petitioners : Mr.K.Balaganesh For the Respondents : Mr.B.Girish Neelakantan Central Govt. Standing Counsel COMMON ORDER Challenge is laid to the orders of the second respondent dated 17.12.2018 insofar as the petitioners are concerned, and consequential direction is sought for to direct the respondents to permit the petitioners to get re-appointed as Directors of any Company or appointe....

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....Das V.Union of India, (2018) 6 MLJ 704, allowed the batch of writ petitions and set aside the aforesaid notifications/orders. 5. The notification dated 17.12.2018, which was uploaded in the website by the first respondent on 18.12.2018 was challenged on the strength of the judgment of this Court in Bhagavan Das case (cited supra). However, they were dismissed by this Court, and such orders were....

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....eals 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 ....

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....ossible to file either the financial statements or the annual returns without a DIN. Consequently, the director of Defaulting Company A, in the above example, would be required to retain the DIN so as to make good the deficiency by filing the respective documents. Thus, apart from the fact that the AQD Rules do not empower the ROC to deactivate the DIN, we find that such deactivation woul....