Companies Act, 2013
429.
Power
to seek assistance of Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, etc.
1. The Tribunal may, in
any proceeding relating to a sick company or winding up of any other company,
in order to take into custody or under its control all property, books of
account or other documents, request, in writing, the Chief Metropolitan
Magistrate, Chief Judicial Magistrate or the District Collector within whose
jurisdiction any such property, books of account or other documents of such
sick or other company, are situate or found, to take possession thereof, and
the Chief Metropolitan Magistrate, Chief Judicial Magistrate or the District
Collector, as the case may be, shall, on such request being made to him,—
a.
take
possession of such property, books of account or other documents; and
b.
cause
the same to be entrusted to the Tribunal or other person authorized by it.
1.
2. For the purpose of
securing compliance with the provisions of sub-section (1 ), the Chief
Metropolitan Magistrate, Chief Judicial Magistrate or the District Collector
may take or cause to be taken such steps and use or cause to be used such force
as may, in his opinion, be necessary.
3. No act of the Chief
Metropolitan Magistrate, Chief Judicial Magistrate or the District Collector
done in pursuance of this section shall be called in question in any court or
before any authority on any ground whatsoever.