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Issues: Whether the records relating to the pending appeal could be reconstructed and whether recovery proceedings based on the demand notice should remain in abeyance until the appeal is disposed of.
Analysis: The appeal was found to be pending and undisposed of, while the records were not traceable. The communication from the Tribunal indicated that the status of the appeal could not be ascertained from the available registers. In these circumstances, the appropriate course was to reconstruct the case records from available copies of the appeal papers and connected records, so that the Tribunal could consider and decide the appeal in accordance with law. Since recovery was being pursued despite the unresolved status of the appeal, fairness required that coercive steps be stayed pending such reconstruction and disposal.
Conclusion: The records were directed to be reconstructed and the appeal was directed to be decided within a fixed time. Recovery pursuant to the demand notice was ordered to remain in abeyance until disposal of the appeal.
Final Conclusion: The writ petition was allowed to the extent of granting procedural protection to the petitioner by requiring reconstruction of the appellate record and suspension of recovery until the appeal is finally decided.
Ratio Decidendi: Where an appellate record is not traceable and the appeal remains pending, the authority may be directed to reconstruct the record and coercive recovery may be kept in abeyance until the appeal is adjudicated.