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Issues: Whether the demand raised as arrears and the consequential attachment of property could survive after the assessment had been set aside and no other arrears were shown to be due.
Analysis: The petitioner's assessments had been taken up before the Special Committee under Section 16-D of the Tamil Nadu General Sales Tax Act, 1959, and the Committee's order setting aside the assessments had attained finality. The respondent could not ignore that final order or re-agitate the competence of the Committee at that stage. The record also showed that no other subsisting demand was demonstrated against the petitioner. In those circumstances, the demand quantified in the impugned order lacked a legal basis, and the attachment founded on that demand could not continue.
Conclusion: The impugned demand order was quashed and the attachment was directed to be lifted, in favour of the petitioner.
Final Conclusion: The writ petition succeeded because the arrears demand had no surviving foundation after the prior set-aside of the assessment, and the consequential coercive attachment was unsustainable.
Ratio Decidendi: A demand for arrears and consequential attachment cannot be sustained where the underlying assessment has been set aside by a final order and no independent outstanding liability is established.
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