Raina Assainar ● NERUL

The Nerul police are on look-out for a ‘lungi man’ who al-legedly cheated jewellers us-ing a completely differentmodus operandi. The accusedfirst zeroes on an individualwhom he finds on road and islooking for a job. He then tellshim that he will find a job forhim and later buys him foodand befriends him. Later hewears a lungi and takes him toa jewellery shop and tells thejeweller that the other man ishis younger brother and thathe stayed nearby.

“His logic behind wearinga lungi is to show the shopkeeper that he stayed nearbyand he walked into the shopwearing what he wears athome. He introduces the job-less man whom he had be-friended as his younger broth-er and then takes gold chainsfrom the shop under the pre-text of showing it to his moth-er to choose one and asks theother man to wait at the shopitself,” a police official fromNerul Police Station said.

According to police, hegains the confidence of theshopkeeper with his friendlytalks and later tells him thathe wants to show the chainto his mother and wants herto choose one and according-ly takes the chains while theother man who was intro-duced as his younger brotheris made to wait at the shop.“The shopkeeper allows himto go with the jewellery think-ing that he has kept hisyounger brother in the shopso he will surely return,” theofficial added.

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Sameera Kapoor ● PANVEL

The prevalent business strate-gies and acumen of Indian en-trepreneurs has become thematter of research for a groupof senior working profession-als pursuing executive MBAprogramme in the US and arecurrently visiting the city.

The visit, governed essen-tially with the need to knowthe ever changing businessscenario of India in context ofglobalisation, was facilitatedby Panvel-based MahatamaEducation Society’s Pillai In-stitute of Management Stud-ies and Research.

The institute played host to19 management students for atwo-day business managementlecture series at Dr KM Vasude-van Pillai campus on September5 and 6. Visiting at least twocountries was informed to bethe requirement of the coursein order to learn global man-agement strategies and tech-niques to take on global man-agement responsibilities. “Thecollaboration with St Mary’sCollege of Business and Eco-nomics was established in 2006and they had hosted six groupsof Pillai’s students who visit theUS every year to learn aboutAmerican business culture andstrategy. This was the first timethat working professionals from

overseas are here for an experi-ential learning,” said the chair-person of the managementboard, Dr Daphne Pillai.

Having arrived from Ben-galuru, the observation madeby the foreign students aboutIndian business practices wasdiverse. For some it was the in-herent talent for negotiatingthat came in the forefrontwhile for others it was para-doxical cultural ethics en-twined within business deal-ings. “Globalisation hasopened up the avenues for do-

ing business regardless of theregion and country. In theshort span of time spent in In-dia, it’s the negotiating abilitythat’s impressed me im-mensely. Any object or prod-uct is negotiated with greatperseverance,” said Prof (fi-nance) of St Mary’s, XiotianZhang (Tina).

The business session hadtopics like ‘Turnaround strate-gies in public private partner-ship’, ‘21st Century leadershipand Indian entrepreneurship’discussed in depth. Anecdotes

and interesting facts that mir-rored the business trends toowere given out for the profes-sionals to understand. So if en-gaging in business ventureduring marriage season andfestive occasion were deemedto be a wasted effort then fail-ure rate of Indian technocratin business venture in westcoast of US was informed to benil by the speaker Dr R Chan-dran during his presentationon cultural dimension of do-ing business in India.

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Q: I have been married for thelast 5 years. My marriage wassolemnised at Navi Mumbai asper the Hindu rites. After mymarriage I was residing alongwith my wife at Nerul. How-ever, due to ill-advise from myparents-in-law my wife leftme and has gone to herparental house in Rajasthan inOctober, 2010. I made severalattempts to request her tocome back to me and haveeven spoken to her parentsthrough some elders and mu-tual friends. Of late I have beeninformed that my wife, underthe ill-advise of her parents, isplanning to file a divorce peti-tion in Rajasthan. I still loveher and want this marriage tocontinue. Could you pleaseadvise me on the course of ac-tion that I should adopt?

— Sanjay GangawatA: It is a recognised principleunder all the personal laws thatafter marriage a spouse is en-titled to co-habitation and so-ciety of the other spouse andwhere one spouse abandonsthe other without reasonableexcuse the party who has beenabandoned and aggrieved hasa right to apply for restitutionof conjugal rights.

As your marriage wassolemnised as per the Hindurites, you may move a petitionfor restitution of conjugalrights wherein you can bring tothe notice of the Court your de-sire and wish of leading a mar-

ried life with your wife, the factthat your wife has deserted youwithout reasonable excuse un-der the ill-advice of her familymembers and also put onrecord attempts made by yourequesting your wife to comeback.

Such a petition can be filedwith District Court/ FamilyCourt within the local limits of

whose ordinary original civiljurisdiction either i) the mar-riage was solemnized or ii) therespondent (in your case, thewife) at the time of presenta-tion of the presentation of thepetition resides or iii) the par-ties to the marriage last residedtogether. The Court, after hear-ing your wife and after beingsatisfied about the truth of thestatements in your petition,would then grant a decree ofrestitution of conjugal rights.

Q: I was director in a privatelimited company from April2005 to 2009 after which I re-signed from the said post andI have had no connection withthe said company thereafter.

Recently, I have been servedwith a summons issued by themagistrate court in respect ofa dishonoured cheque whichwas handed to one of the ven-dors of the company. Howev-er, from the statements madein the complaint I understandthat the said cheque was is-sued on October 17, 2009, thatis about six months after Iceased to be a director of thecompany. Hence I was not atall involved in this transaction.Could you please advice me onthe legal position involved?

—R NagarajA: According to section 141 ofthe Negotiable Instruments Act,1881, if the offence under sec-tion 138 is committed by a com-pany, every person who was incharge of and was responsibleto the company for the conductof the business of the compa-ny, at the time of commission ofthe offence, as well as the com-pany, shall be deemed to beguilty of the offence and shall beliable to be prosecuted againstand punished accordingly.

However, merely being a di-rector does not attract culpableliability. To attract culpabilitysuch director must either be re-sponsible to the company forconduct of its affairs or offencemust be proved to have beencommitted with the consent orconnivance by such director. Inyour case, since you had re-signed from the directorship inApril, 2009 itself, you were “notin-charge or responsible for theday-to-day affairs of the com-pany” and could not be so. Tosupport your case, you may pro-duce the certified copy of theForm 32 issued by the Regis-trar of Companies evidencingthe date of resignation.

After marriage a spouse isentitled to co-habitationUS professionals visit

Pillai’s campus in Panvel

Paying obeisance to the elephant-headed Lord Everyone from real estate developers to industrialists to senior government officials to Bollywood celebrities visited Center One mall inVashi where an eco-friendly idol of Varadvinayak hasbeen installed as part of DNA’s Eco Ganesha initiative

Cops launchhunt for‘lungi man’

Executives pursuingMBA programmesare in city as part oftheir research study

1) MCHI secretary ManoharShroff at DNA Eco Ganeshain Center One mall in Vashi

2)CMD of Shah Builders,Nalin Shah with his wifeperforming the aarti

3) Samir Malwade of SibaAdvertising with wifevisiting the DNA EcoGanesha

4) Jasbir Rawat of KcreestAdvertising at the EcoGanesha

5) Model Surabhi Rao payingher obeisance to the Lord

6) CGS Mani, president andhead, Bajaj Lightings alongwith his family visited DNAEco Ganesha at Center Onemall

7) Suresh Maheshwari,proprietor of S KumarPublicity performing aarti ofthe elephant-headed God

8) Rahul Godghashe ofRahul Advertising alongwith wife

9) Actor Vishakha Singhalso visited the DNA EcoGanesha

10) Actor Nisha Haralepraying to the Lord atCenter One mall

11) Bharat Nimbarte,regional officer, MPCB withwife and senior MPCBofficial Amar Supate

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The management students attended two-day lecture series —Umesh Pawar DNA

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Sharing viewsThe observations made by the students aboutIndian business practices were diverse. For someit was inherent talent for negotiating that camein the front while for others it was paradoxicalcultural ethics entwined within business dealings

Discussion pointThe business session conducted by Pillai’sinstitute had topics like ‘Turnaround strategies inpublic private partnership’, ‘21st Centuryleadership and Indian entrepreneurship’ whichwere discussed in depth

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