Partnership –Sec 69(2) D.D.A. v. Kochhar Construction Work and Anr., (1998)8 SCC 559. In view of the clear provision of the Act it was not possible to subscribe to the view that subsequent registration of the firm may cure the initial defect, because the proceedings were ab initio defective as they could not have been instituted since the firm in whose name the proceedings were instituted was not a registered firm on the date of the institution of the proceedings.