Companies Act, 2017 — section 87

87. Subsidiary company not to hold shares in its holding company..—(1) No company shall, either by itself or through its nominees, hold any shares in its holding company and no holding company shall allot or transfer its shares to any of its subsidiary companies and any such allotment or transfer of shares of a company to its subsidiary company shall be void: Provided that a subsidiary shall not be barred

(a)from acting as a trustee unless its holding company is beneficially interested under the trust; and

(b)from d e a l i n g in shares of its holding company in the ordinary course of its business, on behalf of its clients only subject to non- provision of any financial assistance where such subsidiary carries on a bona fide business of brokerage: Provided further that a subsidiary dealing in shares of its holding company in the ordinary course of its brokerage business, shall not exercise the voting rights attached to such shares: Provided also that the provisions of this section shall not be applicable where such shares are held by a company by operation of law.

(2)Any violation of this section shall be an offence liable to a penalty of level 2 on the standard scale.