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Issues: Whether the Tribunal could decide the appeals on merits when the first appellate authority had dismissed them for non-deposit of the pre-deposit amount.
Analysis: The appeals before the Tribunal arose only from orders dismissing the assessee's appeals for failure to make the required pre-deposit. In such a situation, the Tribunal was required to examine the legality of the pre-deposit order and the dismissal for non-compliance, and not to bypass that stage by entering into the merits of the assessment. Deciding the appeals as if they were direct challenges to merits was impermissible. The Court followed its earlier view that the proper course in such cases is to remand the matter so the appellate hierarchy is not short-circuited.
Conclusion: The Tribunal erred in deciding the appeals on merits. The impugned orders were quashed and the matters were remitted to the Tribunal for consideration of the pre-deposit issue and the validity of the dismissal orders.
Final Conclusion: The appeals succeeded only to the extent of setting aside the Tribunal's merit-based adjudication and sending the matters back for decision in accordance with the correct appellate stage.
Ratio Decidendi: Where the first appellate authority has dismissed an appeal for non-deposit of pre-deposit, the second appellate forum must first examine that dismissal and cannot bypass the pre-deposit stage by deciding the appeal on merits.
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