Section 295 - Loans to directors:- (1) Save as otherwise provided in sub- section (2), no company (hereinafter in this section referred to as" the lending company") 1[ without obtaining the previous approval of the Central Government in that behalf shall directly or indirectly,] make any loan to, or give any guarantee or provide any security in connection with a loan made by any other person to, or to any other person by:- (a) any director of the lending company or of a company which is its holding company or any partner or relative of any such director; 1. Subs. by Act 65 of 1960, s. 102, for certain words. (b) any firm in which any such director or relative is a partner; (c) any private company of which any such director is a director or member; (d) any body corporate at a general meeting of which not less than twenty- five per cent. of the total v...