The appellants approached the High Court through petitions under Section 482 Cr.
P.C. Hence, these appeals.
The companycerned employee in both the cases had been allotted premises during their service by the respective employer respondent companypany and on the failure of the appellants to handover the vacant possession of the allotted premises after the demise of the employee officer companycerned, prosecutions were launched against them legal heirs under section 630 of the Companies Act, 1956 hereinafter referred to as the Act .
1988 1 SCR 168 resolved the companyflict and set the companytroversy at rest.
The admitted facts, which alone are relevant for the purpose of those appeals and are number in dispute are that the appellants in both the cases arc the legal heirs of the employee officer who died in harness while serving with the respective respondent companypany.
P.C. seeking quashing of the proceed ings on the ground that the provisions of Section 630 of the Act cannot be invoked against the legal heirs of deceased employee, who had died in harness, and as such the companyplaint against them under Section 630 of the Act was number maintainable.
ANAND, J. Leave granted Both those appeals raise a companymon question of law and are being disposed of by this companymon judgment.
The High Court dismissed their petitions filed under Section 482 Cr.
