MOHAN J.

These appeals arise out of the common judgment of Ramaprasada Rao J., as he then was, rendered in Company Petitions Nos. 27 to 31 of 1976. A common question arose in all those petitions. The nature of relief was for rectifying the register of members of five incorporated companies, namely, Shardlow India Ltd., India Pistons Ltd., Tractors and Farm Equipment Ltd., Bimetal Bearings Ltd. and Reichhold Chemicals India Ltd. The rectification sought for was for the removal of the name of Associated Printers (Madras) Ltd. from the share register of each of the above companies. A further relief was prayed for to the effect that the petitioner before the learned single judge, the appellant before us, should be substituted as the holder of such shares in the place of the said Associated Printers (Madras) Ltd.

The third respondent in the appeals was the third respondent before the learned judge in all the company petitions. He is none other than the brother of the petitioner before the learned single judge and the appellant before us. Since it was agreed between the parties that the pleadings in C. P. No. 31 of 1976, if referred to, would be enough to focus the controversy