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Issues: Whether the Tribunal could refuse to consider the prima facie merits while deciding the stay application, and whether the stay order was liable to be interfered with for failure to apply the settled parameters governing grant of stay.
Analysis: The order under challenge arose from a stay matter in tax revisions where the Tribunal declined to examine prima facie merits on the ground that doing so might prejudice the final appeal. In deciding stay applications, the settled parameters require consideration of prima facie case and financial hardship, if pleaded. A tribunal cannot avoid that exercise merely because the issue may have some bearing on the appeal, since any such consideration is only tentative and does not bind the final adjudication. The impugned order, by refusing even to examine prima facie case, departed from the accepted legal standard governing interim protection.
Conclusion: The Tribunal's order was held to be legally unsustainable and was set aside.
Final Conclusion: The revisions were disposed of by directing deposit of 10% of the disputed tax, adjustment of amounts already deposited, and furnishing of security for the balance, with the appeals to be decided expeditiously on merits.
Ratio Decidendi: While deciding a stay application in tax proceedings, the authority must consider prima facie case and financial hardship and cannot decline that inquiry on the assumption that it may affect the final appeal.
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