2 At an earlier hearing of the Company Application, on 15 January 2014, this Court noted in detail the various attempts made on behalf of the exdirectors and others for discharge of workers' dues from out of the amounts deposited with the Mamlatdar of Gandevi in Gujrat in pursuance of the sanctioned scheme. Various reports were filed from time to time by the Mamlatdar giving details of the amounts disbursed by him and the amounts that could not be disbursed despite extensive publicity given in the local media from time to time. In the premises, this Court directed that the amounts lying with the Mamlatdar, Gandevi, Gujrat should be transferred to the Official Liquidator. The Official Liquidator was required to distribute these amounts to the company's workers in accordance with the sanctioned scheme after verifying the identity and eligibility of the workers, within six months from the date of deposit of the amounts with him. It was further directed that if there were any undistributed funds with the Official Liquidator at the end of this six months' period, the same shall be returned to the company by the Official Liquidator against an undertaking by the latter to make payments of any dues found payable to any worker/s under the sanctioned scheme in the event any claim was made in that behalf after return of undistributed funds to the company. It appears that in pursuance of this order, a final public notice was issued by the Applicants, after getting a draft settled from the Official Liquidator, requiring all workers of the company in liquidation to claim their dues from the Official Liquidator within six months from the date of publication of the notice. The workmen were notified that in the event of failure to lodge their claims with the Official Liquidator within the stipulated period of six months, unclaimed amounts would be refunded to the company and in the event of such refund, the workers would have to claim the amounts directly from the
