Sanjana joined a company named as Designers Cloths Ltd. as an Independent Director. In order to know more about the company, she wanted to inspect…

In terms of section 128 (3) of the Companies Act, 2013 the books of account and other books and papers maintained by the company within India shall be open for inspection at the registered office of the company or at such other place in India by any director during business hours and in the case of financial information, if any, maintained outside the country, copies of such financial information shall be maintained and produced for inspection by any director subject to such conditions as prescribed in Rule 4 of the Companies (Accounts) Rules, 2014. The financial information shall be sought for by the director himself and not by or through his power of attorney holder or agent or representative. As per the facts of the question, the books of accounts and other records including minutes books are maintained at the registered office of Designer's Cloths Ltd. in Mumbai i.e. within India. Sanjana as the director of the company can inspect the books of accounts and minutes books. But she cannot authorize Avantika to make an inspection on behalf of her.