SECTION 226 VOLUNTARY WINDING UP OF COMPANY, ETC., NOT TO STOP INVESTIGATION PROCEEDINGS

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An investigation under this Chapter may be started regardless of the following, and no such inquiry shall be halted or postponed just because—

• A request has been submitted by section 241[1];

• A special resolution for the company's voluntary winding up has been adopted; or

• The Tribunal (National Company Law Tribunal- NCLT[2] is a quasi-judicial[3] body which is authorised for dealing with the corporate disputes which are civil and arising under the Companies Act) and is currently hearing any other case involving the company's winding up:

As long as the inspector informs the Tribunal of the ongoing investigation proceedings before him and the Tribunal passes the appropriate order in a proceeding referred to in subsection (c) when a winding up order is made:

Furthermore, nothing in the winding up order shall relieve any director or other employee of the company from their responsibility to appear before the inspector or from any liabilities resulting from the inspector's findings.

What is National Company Law Tribunal?

It is a quasi-judicial body which is authorised for dealing with the corporate disputes which are civil and arising under the Companies Act

The current President of NCLT is Chief Justice (Retd.) Ramalingam Sudhakar[4].

Functions-

• Tribunal will handle all actions under the Companies Act, including arbitration, agreements, compromises, reconstruction, and corporate wound-up.

• Not a single civil court will have jurisdiction over the before-mentioned matters.

• The cases which are pending before the (BIFR) Board for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction[5] as well as those pending under the Sick Industrial Companies (Special Provisions) Act, 1985, might be heard by the NCLT.

• Also, matters pending before the Appellate Authority for Industrial and Financial Reconstruction will be taken up.

• It can also take on matters involving corporate oppression and mismanagement.

Benches of National Law Tribunal[6]-

Locations	Jurisdiction
Principle Bench i.e., New Delhi	New Delhi
Ahmedabad Bench	Gujarat Dadra and Nagar Haveli Daman and Diu
Allahabad Bench	Uttar Pradesh Uttarakhand
Amaravati Bench	Andhra Pradesh
Bengaluru Bench.	Karnataka
Chandigarh Bench	Himachal Pradesh Jammu and Kashmir Punjab Chandigarh Haryana
Chennai Bench	Tamil Nadu Puducherry
Cuttack Bench	Chhattisgarh Odisha
Guwahati Bench	Arunachal Pradesh Assam Manipur Mizoram Meghalaya Nagaland Sikkim Tripura
Telangana Bench	Telangana
Indore Bench	Madhya Pradesh
Jaipur Bench	Rajasthan
Kochi Bench	Kerala Lakshadweep
Kolkata Bench	Bihar Jharkhand West Bengal Andaman and Nicobar Islands
Mumbai Bench	Goa Maharashtra

[1] Companies Act 2013 (Section 241)-

https://www.mca.gov.in/content/dam/mca/pdf/CompaniesAct2013.pdf [2] Indian Kanoon (Section 408) -https://indiankanoon.org/doc/691232/ [3] A quasi-judicial body is “an organ of Government other than a Court or Legislature, which affects the rights of private parties either through adjudication or rulemaking” [4] About Honourable President- https://nclt.gov.in/sites/default/files/ncltmember/Profile.pdf [5] Its purpose was to Shut Down, Recover, Reshape, or liquidate the sick companies the companies which are not performing well. [6] National Company Law Tribunal- https://nclt.gov.in/national-company-law-tribunal-benches