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Issues: Whether the Appellate Assistant Commissioner was bound to fix a date and place for hearing of the appeal even after the assessment order had been completely cancelled under section 27 and the appeal had become infructuous.
Analysis: Section 31 of the Income-tax Act, 1922 lays down the procedure for hearing and disposal of appeals on merits, including fixation of a date and place of hearing. That procedure applies where the appeal remains capable of decision on merits. Where the assessment order under appeal has disappeared entirely because it has been cancelled and the original assessment no longer survives, the appeal cannot be decided on merits. In such an extraordinary situation, insisting on a formal hearing would serve no useful purpose and the appellate authority is justified in treating the appeal as infructuous.
Conclusion: The Appellate Assistant Commissioner was not required to fix a date and place for hearing before dismissing the appeal as infructuous. The answer to the referred question was in favour of the department and against the assessee.
Final Conclusion: The reference was answered against the assessee, and the appellate dismissal of the infructuous appeal was upheld.
Ratio Decidendi: When the subject-matter of an appeal has ceased to exist because the underlying order has been completely cancelled, the statutory procedure for hearing an appeal on merits becomes inapplicable and the appeal may be disposed of as infructuous without a formal hearing.
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