HC stays several from alienating shares in TD Power System

NT Correspondent

Bengaluru: In an interim order on July 12, Justice SR Krishna Kumar of the High Court of Karnataka restrained the chairman of the company and several others from alienating the shares of TD Power System Ltd (TDPSL). Vijay Ravindra Kirloskar, the chairman of Kirloskar Electric Company (KEC) founded TD Power System in 1999 and he along with the several KEC Welfare Trusts had petitioned the High Court against several persons who hold 2.51 crore shares in the company worth Rs 555 crore.

Kirloskar and the Trusts had approached a Commercial Court in Bengaluru seeking an injunction against the chairman of TDPSL and a family friend of Kirloskar, Mohib Nomanbhai Khericha, Kirloskar’s nephew Nikhil Kumar and others from alienating the 2,51,32,165 shares of TDPSL held by them.

The Commercial Court had refused to give a temporary injunction following which Kirloskar and the Trusts approached the HC. While the HC granted the interim order, it gave the respondents one week to file their objects and seek for vacating the interim order.

The HC issued emergent notice to the respondents and said, “In the meanwhile, respondents nos.1 to 5 and respondent Nos.7 to 10, their agents, representatives, servants, partners, power of attorney holders and/ or officers and/ or anyone claiming by, through or under them from in any manner, are restrained from alienating/ transferring/ encumbering/ dealing with and/ or creating any third party rights whatsoever in respect of the suit schedule shares, namely 2,51,32,165 shares of TD Power Systems Limited/ 6th respondent herein, which is listed on the National Stock Exchange and the Bombay Stock Exchange, till the next date of hearing.”

Kirloskar and the Trusts have claimed that Khericha and other shareholders had sold TDPSL shares worth Rs 584 crore recently in block deals on the stock market.

These shares amounting to 3.77 crores were sold at Rs 221 per share on June 30. Allegedly, Kriloskar had transferred his ownership of the shares to Khericha for holding them on his behalf. But Khericha had failed to comply with an agreement to return the shares to Kirloskar, the petition has claimed.

The other respondents in the case are Ms Saphire Finman Services LLP, Ms Charted Capital Investment Limited, Sofial Mohib Khericah, Sagir Mohib Khericha, Ms TD Power Systems Ltd, Hitoshi Matsuo (Japan), Lavanya Sankaran and Arya Sankaran.