Case: D.B. Negandhi Vs. Registrar of Companies

3. Brief facts of the case are that a criminal complaint was filed by the Registrar of Companies against the Directors of M/s. Cauveri Software Engineering Systems Ltd, a Company incorporated on 08.01.1991, for failure to lay before the Company in Annual General Meeting held on 28.02.2005 the balance sheet and profit and loss account for the period required under(1) and (3) of Section 210 of the Companies Act, 1956 (for short `the Act). The appellant was stated to be one of the Directors of the Company. The said proceedings (C.C. No. 108 of 2006), pending before the Special Court (Economic Offences), Bangalore, were challenged in 482 petition before the High Court on the ground that though the appellant was inducted as Director of the Company in 1991, but owing to hishe resigned from the post of Director with effect from 31.05.1997.

Court's reasoning:
5. The perusal of the record shows that copy of the letter dated 16.06.1997 (Annexureregarding information of acceptance of resignation in the meeting of the Board of Directors of the Company, and the letter addressed to Registrar of Companies on that date along with Form 32 (Annexureare on the record, and no counter affidavit has been filed to dispute the same.6. We have also perused copies of order passed by the High Court on 06.11.2014 (in Criminal Petition Nos. 5893 of 2010, 5894 of 2010, 5896 of 2010 and 5897 of 2010) and order dated 07.11.2014 in Criminal Petition No. 5895 of 2010 whereby the similar proceedings are quashed by the High Court in respect of the appellant, and the said orders have already attained finality.