Companies Act, 1956
Sec 405. Addition of respondents to application under
section 397 or 398.
If the managing director or any other director or the manager,
of a company, or any other person, who has not been impleaded as a respondent
to any application under section 397 or 398 applies to be added as a respondent
thereto, the Company Law Board shall, if it is satisfied that there is
sufficient cause for doing so, direct that he may be added as a respondent
accordingly.