law: Companies Act, 2013 
  463.
  
    Power
  
  of court to grant relief in certain cases.
  1.      If in any proceeding
  
  for negligence, default, breach of duty, misfeasance or breach of trust against
  
  an officer of a company, it appears to the court hearing the case that he is or
  
  may be liable in respect of the negligence, default, breach of duty,
  
  misfeasance or breach of trust, but that he has acted honestly and reasonably,
  
  and that having regard to all the circumstances of the case, including those
  
  connected with his appointment, he ought fairly to be excused, the court may
  
  relieve him, either wholly or partly, from his liability on such term, as it
  
  may think fit:
  Provided
  
  that in a criminal proceeding under this sub-section, the court shall have no
  
  power to grant relief from any civil liability which may attach to an officer
  
  in respect of such negligence, default, breach of duty, misfeasance or breach
  
  of trust.
  1.     
  2.      Where any such
  
  officer has reason to apprehend that any proceeding will or might be brought
  
  against him in respect of any negligence, default, breach of duty, misfeasance
  
  or breach of trust, he may apply to the High Court for relief and the High
  
  Court on such application shall have the same power to relieve him as it would
  
  have had if it had been a court before which a proceedings against that officer
  
  for negligence, default, breach of duty, misfeasance or breach of trust had
  
  been brought under sub-section (1 ).
  3.      No court shall grant
  
  any relief to any officer under sub-section (1 ) or sub-section (2 )
  
  unless it has, by notice served in the manner specified by it, required the
  
  Registrar and such other person, if any, as it thinks necessary, to show cause
  
  why such relief should not be granted.