COMMON ORDER

The prayer made in these writ petitions is to issue a Certiorarified Mandamus, calling for the records of the respective respondents in so far as it relates to the publication of the list of disqualified Directors in which the names of the respective petitioners are included and the consequential deactivation of their Director Identification Number (DIN).

2. According to the petitioners, the respondents herein released a list of disqualified directors under Section 164(2)(a) of the Companies Act, 2013, disqualifying them as directors of the various companies, in which, names of the petitioners were also included. In other words, the respondents, disqualified the petitioners as Directors for non-filing of financial statements or annual returns for continuous period of three financial years by the defaulting companies on whose board, the petitioner (s) is/are serving as a Director. According to the petitioners, by virtue of such disqualification, they could not be appointed or reappointed as director in any other company for a period of 5 years.

Therefore, assailing the orders of disqualification mainly on the ground that such orders have been passed in gross violation of