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Pleas of Mistry's firms not maintainable: NCLT

The NCLT on Monday held that the two petitions filed by Cyrus Mistry's family companies against his ouster from Tata Sons were not maintainable as they did not fulfil the eligibility criteria for approaching the tribunal. The National Company Law Tribunal (NCLT) also said it would hear tomorrow the plea of Mistry's companies seeking waiver of the eligibility criteria of 10 per cent shareholding, required under the Companies Act for moving the NCLT against Tata Sons.

"Mistry's companies have failed to satisfy us (NCLT) on the minimum 10 per cent shareholding eligibility criteria under the Companies Act and hence, these petitions are not maintainable," said a division bench of B S V Prakash Kumar (member-judicial) and V Nallasenapathy (member-technical). The Tata Sons opposed the petitions, saying that as per a Supreme Court order, the petitioners were not eligible under the Companies Act as minority shareholders to file such pleas before the NCLT.

Mistry's firms pleaded that under the Act, the NCLT can waive the requirement that a petitioner should hold at least one-tenth of the 'issued share capital' of the company or represent at least one-tenth of the minority shareholders. Tata Sons argued that if preference capital is also considered, the two petitioner firms hold only 2.17 per cent of the total issued share capital of Tata Sons.
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