Directorship and DIN verification
Find out what a candidate directs, and what their Director Identification Number says about it, from the statutory record rather than from a declaration.
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What a directorship and DIN check confirms
Every director of an Indian company holds a Director Identification Number, and every appointment and cessation is filed with the Ministry of Corporate Affairs. That makes directorship one of the few things about a candidate that can be read off a public statutory record instead of asked about. The check answers two questions: what does this person direct, and is the number behind it in good standing.
Whether the number is valid and active, deactivated, surrendered or disqualified.
Every company the number is or has been attached to, current and past, from MCA master data.
When each directorship began and ended, which is what exposes an overlap with declared employment.
Whether each company is active, dormant, struck off or under liquidation.
Disqualification under section 164(2) of the Companies Act, which follows the person to every board they sit on.
The filed record placed beside what the candidate told you, so an omission reads as an omission.
Sources. MCA director master data and company master data, DIN status including DIR-3 KYC compliance, and the ROC filings behind each appointment and cessation. Struck off company lists published by the registrars. Every line cites the DIN or CIN it came from, so you can look it up yourself.
Two checks, run together
They are sold as one check and answer different questions. A valid number says nothing about what the person directs, and a list of directorships says nothing about whether the number behind them is clean.
DIN validation
Confirms the number belongs to the candidate and is in good standing.
- The number is matched to the candidate's name, father's name and date of birth as filed.
- Status is read from MCA: active, deactivated, surrendered or disqualified.
- DIR-3 KYC compliance is checked, since a lapsed filing deactivates a number with nothing behind it.
- Disqualification under section 164(2) is reported with the company that triggered it.
Directorship search
Finds every company the candidate is or has been a director of.
- The number is used to pull the full list of current and past directorships.
- Each company's standing is read: active, dormant, struck off or under liquidation.
- Appointment and cessation dates are set against the employment history.
- Anything not declared to you is listed separately, with its CIN.
Where the law sits. Section 164(2) of the Companies Act 2013 disqualifies a director whose company has failed to file financial statements or annual returns for three continuous years, and section 167 governs when the office is vacated. A deactivated number is a different matter: it usually means the annual DIR-3 KYC was not filed, which is administrative. The report separates the two, because they are not the same conversation to have with a candidate.
How it works
Four steps. The record is public and filed, so the work is matching it to the right person and reading it correctly.
Name, date of birth, father's name, and the number itself where the candidate has declared one.
It is matched to the candidate on the identifiers as filed, then its status and KYC compliance are read.
Every current and past directorship attached to the number, with the standing of each company.
Directorships, dates, company standing and any disqualification, set against what the candidate declared, with the DIN or CIN behind each line.
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