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* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
% Date of Judgment:24.9.2012
+ C.A (M) No.155/2012
IN THE MATTER OF:
Scheme of Arrangement
BY AND BETWEEN:
KAMAKHYA COSMETICS AND PHARMACEUTICALS PVT.
LTD.
AND
MODI REVLON PVT. LTD. ..... Applicants
Through: Mr. D. Bhattacharyya, Advocate
with Mr. Piyush Sharma and Ms. Deeti
Ojha, Advocates.
CORAM:
HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE INDERMEET KAUR
INDERMEET KAUR, J. (Oral)
* IN THE HIGH COURT OF DELHI AT NEW DELHI
% Date of Judgment:24.9.2012
+ C.A (M) No.155/2012
IN THE MATTER OF:
Scheme of Arrangement
BY AND BETWEEN:
KAMAKHYA COSMETICS AND PHARMACEUTICALS PVT.
LTD.
AND
MODI REVLON PVT. LTD. ..... Applicants
Through: Mr. D. Bhattacharyya, Advocate
with Mr. Piyush Sharma and Ms. Deeti
Ojha, Advocates.
CORAM:
HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE INDERMEET KAUR
INDERMEET KAUR, J. (Oral)
| 1. This first motion joint Application has been filed under Sections | |
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| 391to 394 of the Companies Act, 1956 (for short ‘Act’) in respect of a | |
| Scheme of Amalgamation (for short ‘Scheme’) of KAMAKHYA | |
| COSMETICS AND PHARMACEUTICALS P. LTD. (hereinafter | |
| referred to as ‘Transferor Company’) with MODI REVLON P. LTD. |
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| (hereinafter referred to as ‘Transferee Company’). A copy of the | |
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| proposed Scheme is filed along with the present application. | |
| 2. The registered offices of both the Transferor and Transferee | |
| Companies are situated within the National Capital Territory of Delhi | |
| and are within the jurisdiction of this Court. | |
| 3. Details with regard to the date of incorporation of the Transferor | |
| and transferee Companies, their authorized, issued, subscribed and | |
| paid up capital have been given in the Application. | |
| 4. Copies of the Memorandum and Articles of Association as well as | |
| the latest audited Annual Accounts for the year ended 31st December, | |
| 2011 of both the Transferor and Transferee Companies have also | |
| been enclosed with the Application. | |
| 5. Learned counsel for the Applicant Companies submits that no | |
| proceeding under Sections 235 to 251 of the Act is pending against | |
| any of the Applicant Companies as on the date of the present | |
| Application. | |
| 6. The proposed Scheme has been approved by the Board of Directors | |
| of both the Applicant Companies. Copies of the Board Resolutions | |
| have been filed along with the Application. | |
| 7. The status of the Shareholders, Secured and Un-Secured Creditors | |
| of the Transferor and Transferee Companies and the consents obtained | |
| from them for the proposed Scheme is clearly apparent from the chart | |
| given in the Application which is as follows: |
| Company | No. of | Consent | No. of | Consent | No. of | Con | |||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shareholder | Given | Secured | Given | Unsecure | sent | ||||||||||||||||
| & % | Creditor | & % | d | Give | |||||||||||||||||
| s | Creditors | n | |||||||||||||||||||
| & % | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Transferor | (Wholly | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Company | owned | All | Nil | N/A | 8 | Nil | |||||||||||||||
| subsidiary | |||||||||||||||||||||
| of | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Transferee | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Company) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| All | 1 | Nil | 140 | Nil | |||||||||||||||||
| Transferee | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Company | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 8. A prayer has been made for dispensation of the requirement of | |||||||||||||||||||||
| convening meeting of Shareholders of the Transferor Company. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 9. In view of the written consent/NOC given, the requirement of | |||||||||||||||||||||
| convening meeting of Shareholders of the Transferor and Transferee | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Company is dispensed with. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 10. Since the Transferor Company has no Secured Creditor, the | |||||||||||||||||||||
| question of convening their meetings does not arise. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 11. A prayer has been made seeking directions for convening separate | |||||||||||||||||||||
| meetings of Un-Secured Creditors of the Transferee Company and | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Secured Creditors and Un-Secured Creditors of the Transferee | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Company. | |||||||||||||||||||||
| 13. Consequently, this Court directs that separate meetings of the | |||||||||||||||||||||
| Un-Secured Creditors of the Transferor Company and Secured |
| Creditors and Un-Secured Creditors of the Transferee Company shall | |
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| be held on 30th October, 2012 at 13th Floor, Modi Towers, New Delhi | |
| 110019 at 11.00 a.m., 2.00 p.m. and 3.30 p.m. respectively. | |
| 14. Ms.Lalit Mohini Bhat, Advocate, Cell No.9910155009 is | |
| appointed as the Chairperson and Mr.Naresh Garg, Officer of this | |
| Court, Cell No.9717394803 is appointed as the Alternate Chairperson | |
| for the meeting of the Unsecured Creditors of the Transferor | |
| Company. They shall be paid a fee of Rs.50,000/- each. Mr.Baktwer | |
| Singh, Cell No.9868489861 and Mr.Inder Singh, Official of this | |
| Court, Cell No.9711690597 and shall provide secretarial assistance to | |
| the Chairperson and the Alternate Chairperson. They shall be paid a | |
| fee of Rs.10,000/- each for this purpose. | |
| 15. Mr.Aseem Swaroop, Advocate, Cell No.9971612887 is appointed | |
| as the Chairperson and Mr.Syed Burhanur Rahman, Advocate, Cell | |
| No.9990628150 is appointed as the Alternate Chairperson for the | |
| meeting of the Secured Creditors of the Transferee Company. They | |
| shall be paid a fee of Rs.50,000/- each. Ms.Anita Joshi, Official of | |
| this Court, Cell No.9871140535 and Mr.Maan Singh, Cell | |
| No.9968505240 shall provide secretarial assistance to the | |
| Chairperson and the Alternate Chairperson. They shall be paid a fee | |
| of Rs.10,000/- each for this purpose. | |
| 16. Mr.Juvraj Singh Bindra, Advocate Cell No.9927822210 is | |
| appointed as the Chairperson and Mr.Yashpal, Officer of this Court, | |
| Cell No.9910390955 is appointed as the Alternate Chairperson for the |
| meeting of the Unsecured Creditors of the Transferee Company. They | |
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| would be paid a fee of Rs.50,000/- each. Mr. Anil Kumar, Official of | |
| this Court, Cell No.8527000560 and Mr.Ritesh Kumar, Official of this | |
| Court, Cell No.9910598250 shall provide secretarial assistance to the | |
| Chairperson and the Alternate Chairperson. They shall be paid a fee | |
| of Rs.10,000/- each for this purpose. | |
| 17. The Transferor and the Transferee Company are also directed to | |
| publish notice of the aforesaid proposed meetings in ‘Financial | |
| Express’ (English, Delhi edition) and ‘Jan Satta’ (Hindi, Delhi | |
| Edition). The advertisements shall be published minimum twenty-one | |
| days in advance before the scheduled date of meetings. | |
| 18. Individual notices of the proposed meetings would be sent by | |
| ordinary post minimum twenty-one days in advance before the | |
| scheduled date of meetings. The Chairpersons shall ensure that the | |
| dispatch is made under their supervision or their authorized | |
| representatives. | |
| 19. The Quorum for the meeting of the Un-Secured Creditors of the | |
| Transferee Company and Secured Creditors and Un-Secured Creditors | |
| of the Transferee Company are fixed as follows:- | |
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| Company | Nature of | Nos | Quorum | |||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Meeting | ||||||||||||||
| Transferor | Unsecured | |||||||||||||
| Creditors | ||||||||||||||
| Company | 8 | 3 | ||||||||||||
| Transferee | Secured | |||||||||||||
| Company | ||||||||||||||
| Creditor | 1 | 1 | ||||||||||||
| Unsecured | 140 | 56 | ||||||||||||
| Creditors | ||||||||||||||
| 20. It is also directed that if the Quorum is not present in the meetings, | ||||||||||||||
| the meetings would be adjourned for thirty minutes and the persons | ||||||||||||||
| present in the meetings would be treated as proper Quorum. | ||||||||||||||
| 21. It is also directed that in the event, the original consent/no- | ||||||||||||||
| objection of the secured creditors of the Transferee Company is | ||||||||||||||
| produced before the Chairperson/Alternate Chairperson, the meeting | ||||||||||||||
| shall be deemed to have proper quorum even if no authorized | ||||||||||||||
| representative of the Bank/secured creditor is present in person. | ||||||||||||||
| 21. Voting by proxy is permitted provided that the proxy in the | ||||||||||||||
| prescribed form and duly signed by the person entitled to attend and | ||||||||||||||
| vote in the aforesaid meetings or by his authorized representative, is | ||||||||||||||
| filed with the Company at its registered office, not later than forty- |
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| eight hours before the said meetings. | |
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| 22. The Chairpersons/ Alternate Chairpersons shall file their reports | |
| within two weeks of the conclusion of the meetings. | |
| 23. The Application stands allowed in the aforesaid terms. | |
| Order Dasti. | |
| INDERMEET KAUR, J | |
| SEPTEMBER 24, 2012 | |
| nandan | |
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