Section 140 : Right to shareholder to institute case on behalf of company

1) A company may file in the Court a case against any director, office or shareholders or any person having control over the company pursuant to the consensus agreement to have any rights and interests of the company enforced.

2) If the company concerned fails to institute a case under Subsection( 1),any share holder holding two and half percent or more of the shares in the paid-up capital of the company separately or jointly with two or more shareholders holding five percent shares may, on behalf of the company, file in the Court a case against any such director or officer or the person having control over the company or any other person.

3) While filing a case by a shareholder pursuant to Sub-section (2), he/she shall state about what sort of effort he/she has made to persuade the company to institute the case by itself.

4) Where a case is filed pursuant to Sub-section (2), the Court may decide whether it would be appropriate to keep on the case being run by the shareholder or to get the company to take over the case, and if it is found appropriate to get the company to take over the case, it may order the company to take over the case.

5) Any case once filed pursuant to Sub-section (1) or (2) shall not be capable of being dismissed or being compromised except in cases where such compromise contains such terms ad conditions as specified by the Court.

6) Where a case file pursuant to Sub-section (2) is adjudged sustaining the claim made by the claimant shareholder, the expenses incurred by him/her in the institution of such case and reasonable expenses made for the services of legal practitioner shall be reimbursed by the company. Where such claim is not sustained, such amount out of the expenses incurred by the defendant in defending such case as the Court thinks appropriate shall be reimbursed from the complainant shareholder.