The court affirmed compliance with statutory procedures under the Companies Act for dissolution of a company in voluntary liquidation, finding no unresolved claims or liabilities.

ORDER (Oral)

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1. This petition is filed under section 497(6) of the Companies Act, 1956 (hereinafter referred to as "the Act") by the Official Liquidator (OL), seeking dissolution of the Company Yamagata (India) Private Limited (in members voluntary liquidation).

2. The said Company was incorporated under the provisions of the Companies Act, 1956 with the name "Yamagata (India) Private Limited" with Registrar of Companies, NCT of Delhi & Haryana on 13/07/2012 having Corporate Identity Number U74999DL2012FTC238811. The authorized and the Paid - Up Equity Share Capital of the Company (in Vol. Liqn.) was Rs.1,00,00,000/- (Rupees One Crore Only) divided into 10,00,000 (Ten Lakh) equity shares of Rs.10/- (Rupees Ten) each.

3. The registered office of the company is situated within the territory of NCT of Delhi at 2nd Floor, N 170, Greater Kailash Part-I, New Delhi-110048.

4. The first promoters at the time of incorporation were Yamagata Corporation & Kazuyoshi Suga.

5. At the time of the Members Voluntary Winding up of the petitioner company, there were two equity shareholders. The directors at the time of the Members Voluntary Winding-up were Mrs. Anilkumar Vijayalakshmi, Mr. Hiromu Todo & Mr. Michael Ong Teik Loon. The financial position of the company as disclosed in the audited balance sheets for the year ending as on 31.03.2014 & 31.03.2013 are also annexed to the petition.

6. The prescribed Form No. 149 for the Declaration of Solvency was filed with the Registrar of Companies on 13.03.2015 vide Challan No. C46198073.

7. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 484 (1) of the Act and other applicable provisions of the Act, an Extra Ordinary General Meeting of the Members of the said company was held on 14.03.2015 and a special resolution was passed whereby Mr. Sanjay Khandelwal, Company Secretary was appointed as the Voluntary Liquidator. In this regard Form MGT-14 was filed with the Registrar of Companies.

8. That as per the requirement of Section 485 of the Act, the Company has published a notification in the newspapers namely "Haribhumi" (Hindi) and "The Financial Express" (English) as well as in the Official Gazette (English & Hindi) on 21.03.2015 & 11.04.2015 respectively.

9. The notice of appointment of Voluntary Liquidator in Form 152 as required under Section 493 R/W Rule 315 of the Companies (Court) Rules, 1959 was filed with the Registrar of Companies. The Voluntary Liquidator had also published Form 151 of his appointment as Voluntary Liquidator.

10. Further, pursuant to the provisions of Section 497 of the Act, the Liquidator published Form No.155 in the newspapers namely `The Financial Express' (English) & `Nya India' (Hindi) on 22.12.2015 and in the Official Gazette (English & Hindi) on 16.01.2016 for the final meeting to be held on 27.01.2016.

11. The Final Meeting of the said company was held on 27.01.2016 and the Voluntary Liquidator filed accounts of the said Company in Form No. 156 & 157 as prescribed under Rule 329 & 331 of the Companies (Court) Rules, 1959 for the period from 14.03.2015 to 21.12.2015 with the Official Liquidator on 03.02.2016 and before the Registrar of Companies on 29.01.2016 and 01.02.2016 respectively.

12. The Official Liquidator has received no objection from the Registrar of Companies.

13. The Official Liquidator is not in receipt of any `No Objection' certificate from the Income Tax Department. However, the Official Liquidator had sent several communications to the Income Tax Department but no response was received informing about any dues w.r.t. the said Company.

14. The Voluntary Liquidator Mr. Sanjeev Khandelwal has filed an Affidavit dated 21.04.2016 stating that "the company