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Issues: (i) Whether the State Government's order rejecting relief under section 39(6) of the M.P. General Sales Tax Act, 1958 was liable to be quashed for breach of natural justice, and whether the application under that provision was maintainable in the absence of the statutory preconditions. (ii) Whether the assessee could reopen the reassessment orders in the present writ petition after the earlier writ petition challenging those orders had been dismissed as abated. (iii) Whether the Court should grant relief regarding alleged recovery of tax in breach of a stay order.
Issue (i): Whether the State Government's order rejecting relief under section 39(6) of the M.P. General Sales Tax Act, 1958 was liable to be quashed for breach of natural justice, and whether the application under that provision was maintainable in the absence of the statutory preconditions.
Analysis: The order under section 39(6) suffered from lack of hearing and, in that sense, offended natural justice. However, the statutory scheme made the grant of relief conditional upon the dealer first exhausting the remedies under section 45 or section 45-A, or upon expiry of the time for those remedies, and upon rejection of a revision under section 39(1) on merits. The assessee had not filed a revision under section 39(1), so the statutory conditions precedent were absent. The proviso did not confer any power to relax those conditions.
Conclusion: The challenge to the Government's order failed because the application under section 39(6) was not maintainable, and no relief could be granted on the ground of denial of hearing alone.
Issue (ii): Whether the assessee could reopen the reassessment orders in the present writ petition after the earlier writ petition challenging those orders had been dismissed as abated.
Analysis: The earlier writ petition had already been dismissed as abated, and the repeal of the abatement provision did not revive it retrospectively. The abatement continued to operate, and the same reassessment orders could not be reagitated in a fresh writ petition. The assessee also had an ordinary appellate remedy against the reassessment orders, which was not availed of.
Conclusion: The reassessment orders could not be reopened in the present writ petition, and the challenge to those orders was rejected.
Issue (iii): Whether the Court should grant relief regarding alleged recovery of tax in breach of a stay order.
Analysis: The allegation involved disputed questions of fact, which the Court declined to investigate in writ proceedings. The Court left the assessee to pursue appropriate proceedings if so advised.
Conclusion: No relief was granted on the allegation of recovery in violation of the stay order.
Final Conclusion: The writ petition was not maintainable to the extent it sought relief under section 39(6), the earlier abated challenge could not be revived, and no factual inquiry was undertaken into the alleged recovery, so the overall challenge failed.
Ratio Decidendi: Statutory relief subject to express preconditions cannot be granted by invoking natural justice where those preconditions are unmet, and a matter finally disposed of by abatement cannot be reagitated in a subsequent writ petition.
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