Priyamvada Devi Birla (Dec) vs Ajay Kumar Newar

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2020 Supreme(Cal) 576

SAHIDULLAH MUNSHI
Priyamvada Devi Birla (Dec) – Appellant
Versus
Ajay Kumar Newar – Respondent

Advocates Appeared:
Anindya Kumar Mitra, Advocate, Jayanta Kumar Mitra, Advocate, P.S. Sengupta, Advocate, Abhrajit Mitra, Advocate, Debanjan Mondal, Advocate, Sanjiv Kumar Trivedi, Advocate, Kunal Vajani, Advocate, Jisnu Chowdhury, Advocate, Soumya Roy Chowdhury, Advocate, Sarborpiya Mukherjee, Advocate, Saunak Mitra, Advocate, Iram Hassan, Advocate, Kunal Mimani, Advocate, Deepan Kumar Sarkar, Advocate, Sanket Sarawgi, Advocate, Savya Bawaja, Advocate, Shubhang Tandon, Advocate, Atashi Ghosh, Advocate, S.K. Kapoor, Advocate, Vineeta Meharia, Advocate, Anuj Shigh, Advocate, Pratik Mukhopadhyay, Advocate, Vaibhabi Pandey, Advocate, K.V. Viswanathan, Advocate, Ratnanko Banerjee, Advocate, Swarnendu Ghosh, Advocate, Venkatraman R, Advocate, Hirak Kumar Mitra, Advocate, Suchismita Ghosh Chatterjee, Advocate, Malay Seal, Advocate, Debdutta Sen, Advocate, Kapil Sibal, Advocate, Surajit Nath Mitra, Advocate, Mahesh Agarwal, Advocate, D.N. Sharma, Advocate, Koushik Chowdhury, Advocate, Vanita Bhargav, Advocate, Ajay Bhargava, Advocate, Aspi Chinoy, Advocate, Deepak Joshi, Advocate, Akashh Lamba, Advocate, S. Baweja, Advocate, S. Pundora, Advocate, Sakya Sen, Advocate, Paritosh Sinha, Advocate, Saubhik Chowdhury, Advocate, Dripto Majumdar, Advocate, Kalyan Kumar Bandopahdyay, Advocate, Vineet Naik, Advocate, Ranjan Bachawat, Advocate, Amitesh Banerjee, Advocate, Soubhik Chowdhury, Advocate, Anubhav Sinha, Advocate, Sayan Roychowdhury, Advocate, Satyaki Mukherjee, Advocate, Joy Saha, Advocate, Yash Vardhan Deora, Advocate, Asmita Roychaughuri, Advocate, Kishore Dutta, Advocate, Sumita Shaw, Advocate

JUDGMENT

Sahidullah Munshi, J. - The Court: Plaintiffs and defendants altogether filed four applications. G.A. No. 1735 of 2019 and GA No. 1845 of 2019 have been filed by the defendants whereas the other two applications being G.A. No. 1761 of 2019, G.A. No. 1786 of 2019 have been filed by the plaintiffs.

2. G.A 1735 of 2019 has been taken out by the defendants in the form of an affidavit in support of master summons affirmed on 30.07.2019 by one Arvind Kumar Newar defendant No. 1(b)/applicant with the following prayers:

"(a) A direction do issue upon the plaintiffs to implement the decision dated 19th July, 2019 of the Committee.

(b) A direction do issue upon the Committee to exercise its voting rights flowing from the shareholding in various companies, trust and societies of MP Birla Group forming part of the controlling interest and controlling power vested in the Estate of Priyamvada Devi Birla by casting its votes at the ensuing Annual General Meeting of Vindhya Telelinks Limited on 5th August, 2019; Universal Cables Limited on 5th August, 2019; Birla Cable Limited on 6th August, 2019 and Birla Corporation Limited on 13th August, 2019 through its Chairperson, Justice Mohit Shan

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2020 Supreme(Cal) 576

SAHIDULLAH MUNSHIPriyamvada Devi Birla (Dec) – AppellantVersusAjay Kumar Newar – Respondent

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SAHIDULLAH MUNSHI
Priyamvada Devi Birla (Dec) – Appellant
Versus
Ajay Kumar Newar – Respondent