Supreme Court of India

Mackintosh Burn Limited v. Sarkar and Chowdhury Enterprises Private Limited

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Bench Kurian Joseph and Mohan M. Shantanagoudar JJ.
Decided 27 March 2018

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Companies Act, 2013: s. 58 – Refusal of registration and appeal against refusal – Held: Under s. 58(2), the securities or interest of any member in a public company are freely transferable – However, u/s.58(4), it is open to the public company to refuse registration of the transfer of the securities for a sufficient cause – To that extent, s. 58 (4) has to be read as a limited restriction on the free transfer permitted u/s. 58(2) – Right to refuse registration of transfer on sufficient cause is a question of law and whether the cause shown for refusal is sufficient or not in a given case, can…

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