- (1.) The provision of the Companies Act, 1956, which is under consideration in this application is Section 633(2). It reads as follows: "633(2) Where any such officer has reason to apprehend that any proceeding will or might be brought against him in respect of any negligence, default, breach of duty, misfeasance or breach of trust, he may apply to the High Court for relief and the High Court on such application shall have the same power to relieve him as it would have had if it had been a Court, before which a proceeding against that officer for negligence, default, breach of duty, misfeasance or breach of trust had been brought under sub-section (1)."
(2.) This Act, elsewhere provides for numerous acts and duties to be done by the company and its officers and registers, returns, statements of accounts, other records and documents to be maintained by them. Breach of any obligation is visited by punishment.
(3.) When such prosecution is apprehended, any officer may under Section 633(2) apply to the High Court for exoneration.;