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Company Law - The evolving law in due course is seeing some settlement (not by virtue of Article 142 of the Indian Constitution though), but some imperative issues, still some require settlement, and certain others warrant immediate changes. Briefly discussed below are a few imperative judicial pronouncements....
Read MoreCompany Law - As we all knows that Central Government notified NCLT Rules, 2016 on 21st of July, 2016 through notification in the official gazette. The provisions specify the professionals i.e., Company Secretaries, Chartered Accountants and Advocates who can practice before the NCLT or NCLAT....
Read MoreCompany Law - Restoration of name of a Company struck off under section 248 can be done by following ways: 1. Filing an Appeal: Any person aggrieved from the order of the Registrar (ROC) to strike-off the name of a company, can file an appeal within a period of 3 years from the date of order of the Registrar....
Read MoreCompany Law - As per section 96 of CA, 2013, every Company (other than OPC) shall hold a general meeting annually (exclusive of any other meeting). But if any default is made in holding the annual general meeting of a Company u/s 96, then the Tribunal (NCLT) shall come into the picture....
Read MoreCompany Law - The NCLAT held that that in the absence of any provision in IBC, the Limitation Act, 1963 would not be applicable to initiation of Corporate Insolvency Resolution Process. The NCLAT further observed:...
Read MoreCompany Law - 9,073 cases are under consideration in NCLT, including 1,630 cases of Merger and Amalgamation; 2,511 cases of insolvency and 4,932 cases under other sections of Companies Act. The Company Law Board (CLB) set up under Companies Act 1956 stands dissolved with the setting up of National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT). As on 12.03.2018, only o...
Read MoreCompany Law - 283 Sections of the Companies Act, 2013 have already been commenced. Remaining sections related to functioning of NCLT/NCLAT and certain other authorities are yet to be notified. In view of the Supreme Court order dated 14 th May, 2015, the process for constitution of NCLT/NCLAT has been undertaken and these bodies are likely to be set up...
Read MoreCompany Law - The Government proposes to set up National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and National Company Law Appellate Tribunal (NCLAT) which will replace Company Law Board, Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction and Appellate Authority for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction....
Read MoreCompany Law - The ministry of corporate affairs has begun discussions with the law ministry to incorporate the suggestions made by the Supreme Court when it cleared the National Companies Law Tribunal (NCLT) in the Companies Bill that is with a Parliamentary Standing Committee....
Read MoreCompany Law - In a landmark judgment, a five-judge constitution bench of the Supreme Court on Tuesday upheld the legality of the Companies (Second Amendment) Act, 2002, providing for the establishment of the National Company Law Tribunal and National Company Law Appellate Tribunal to deal exclusively with the company cases for their speedy disposal. ...
Read MoreM/s. Kediya Ceramics (NCLT Ahemdabad) - A partnership firm can participate in a scheme of amalgamation only after converting itself into a company under section 366 of the Act. Since the vesting of properties and liabilities of such partnership firm to the company is by operation of law [Section 368 of the Act], the succession is exempt f...
Read MoreM/S Atv Projects (India) Ltd Vs. Union Of India & Ors. (Delhi High Court) - M/S Atv Projects (India) Ltd Vs. Union Of India & Ors. (Delhi High Court) Under the newly enacted Section 4(b) there are only two classes of persons, namely (i) those persons in whose cases schemes were sanctioned and (ii) those persons in whose cases the schemes were pending. In the former, the...
Read MoreMacquarie Bank Limited Vs Shilpi Cable Technologies Ltd. (Supreme Court of India) - The present appeals raise two important questions which arise under the Insolvency and Bankruptcy Code, 2016 (hereinafter referred to as the Code). The first question is whether, in relation to an operational debt...
Read MorePunita Khatter Vs. Explorers Travels & Tours (P) Ltd. (National Company Law Tribunal Delhi) - Representatives from the Institute of Chartered Accountant have prayed for some time to assist this Bench whether disparaging remarks of a personal nature would fall within the purview of a Chartered Accountant to be mentioned in the Audit report....
Read MoreCyrus Investment & Anr Vs. Tata Sons Ltd. & Ors. (National Company Law Tribunal) - Cyrus Investment & Anr Vs. Tata Sons Ltd. & Ors. (National Company Law Tribunal) A perusal of the aforesaid prayer does not leave any manner of doubt that the prayer was made for entrusting the Company Petition No. 82/2016 to such Bench of the NCLT as may be appropriate for hearing the same ...
Read MoreF.No.278/M-52/2003-ITJ(Pt.) - (04/04/2018) - For a PCCIT region where the NCLT bench is not situated in the region, the concerned PCCIT was directed to ensure representation by coordinating with the PCCIT in whose jurisdiction the NCLT bench is located. This assumes importance in view of the fact that in case of many NCLT benches, a single ben...
Read MoreF. No. 385/04/2018-IT(Budget) - (16/01/2018) - The undersigned is directed to say that by virtue of implementation of Insolvency & Bankruptcy Code (IBC) 2016 after the repeal of erstwhile Sick Industrial Companies Act (SICA). The necessity to decentralize handling of cases at the level of field formations has been felt as 11 National Company Law...
Read MoreF.No. 225/423/2017-ITA.II - (29/12/2017) - Board has decided that request/appeal for restoration of name of the 'struck off' company with retrospective date from the date of being 'struck off' shall be made by the income-tax department in following situations: i. where proceedings under section 143(3)/144/147/153A/153C/set-aside cases wer...
Read MoreF.No.278/M-52/2003-ITJ(Pt.) - (08/11/2017) - On June 01,2016, the Ministry of Corporate Affairs(MCA) published a notification regarding the constitution of National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) and National Company Law Appellate Tribunal(NCLAT)....
Read MoreF. No. DIT(RI/DIFR/2017-18/ - (28/09/2017) - In this connection the region wise jurisdiction of companies, against whom insolvency proceedings have been initiated under The Insolvency Bankruptcy Code 2016 (IBC 2016 in short) as available under the icon Public Announcement in the website of Insolvency and Bankruptcy Board Of India (IBBI in shor...
Read MoreM/s. Kediya Ceramics (NCLT Ahemdabad) -
F.No.278/M-52/2003-ITJ(Pt.) - (04/04/2018) -
M/S Atv Projects (India) Ltd Vs. Union Of India & Ors. (Delhi High Court) -
F. No. 385/04/2018-IT(Budget) - (16/01/2018) -
Macquarie Bank Limited Vs Shilpi Cable Technologies Ltd. (Supreme Court of India) -
F.No. 225/423/2017-ITA.II - (29/12/2017) -
