The petitioners in this bunch of writ petitions have challenged the respective impugned orders dated 8.9.2017, 1.11.2017 etc., passed by the Registrar of Companies, Tamil Nadu, Chennai, the second respondent herein, uploaded in the website of the Ministry of Corporate Affairs, New Delhi, the first respondent herein disqualifying them to hold the office of Directorship of the companies under Section 164(2)(a) of the Companies Act 2013, which came into effect from 1.4.2014, to quash the same as illegal, arbitrary and devoid of merits with a consequential direction to the respondents herein to permit the petitioners to get reappointed as Directors of any company or appointed as Directors in any other company without any hindrance.

2. Heard Mr.P.H.Aravind Pandian, learned senior counsel for Mr.C.V.Shailandhran, Mr.Shardul Amarchandmangaldas, Mr.Harishankar Mani for the respective petitioners, Mr.R.Sivaraman, Mr.Sankar Varadharajan, Mr.R.Balaguruswamy, Mr.J.Ravindran, Mr.K.Jayaraman, Mr.A.Narayanan, Mr.Naveenkumar Murthi, Mr.Desikan Balaji, Mr.N.V.Prakash, Mr.Govind Chandrasekhar, Mr.S.Sathianarayanan, Mrs.P.Bagyalakshmi, Mr.R.Prithviraj Pandian, Mrs.R.Sangeetha, Mr.S.Punniyakotti