Hi,
I am a newly qualified Chartered Account and I came up with a very peculiar case and seek your help in it.
A friend of mine has deposited Rs. 2 Lacs in a private company as share application since 2006 in a company having his uncle(father's brother) and father as directors. Together his uncle and his family (his sons and wife) owns 49% of the shares and my friend's family (including father) owns 21% shares, rest shares are distributed among common friends of the family (almost 30% of the shares).
Following a family dispute his uncle has refused to allocate these shares to him. the company has been showing this amount has share application money for past 5-6 years in the balance sheet filed with the registrar.
Some of the common friends (out of the 30% mentioned above) also want to transfer their shares to my friend/his father but again they are not able to transfer these shares as his uncle is not ready to sign the share transfer forms.
What is the remindy with him?
I feel being a private company, his uncle being a major shareholder has the complete right to refuse this share allocation and further he has the right to refuse the share transfer.
PS. 1. There is nothing written in the memorandum regarding the share transfer.
2. No agreement/ paper work was done at the time of deposit of this share application money.