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Issues: (i) Whether the High Court had territorial jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India to entertain the challenge to the order passed by the Commercial Tax Officer located outside its territorial limits and the appellate order affirming it; (ii) whether, in the circumstances of the case, any order could be made against the third respondent when no action of that authority was under challenge in the present writ petition.
Issue (i): Whether the High Court had territorial jurisdiction under Article 226 of the Constitution of India to entertain the challenge to the order passed by the Commercial Tax Officer located outside its territorial limits and the appellate order affirming it.
Analysis: The impugned recovery order was passed by an authority situated outside the territorial jurisdiction of the High Court, and the appellate order was also passed by an authority outside such territorial limits. The Court held that entertaining and continuing the writ petition against such authorities was not permissible in the exercise of writ jurisdiction. It further noted that deciding the liability would require determination of disputed factual aspects, which was not appropriate in the present proceedings.
Conclusion: The challenge could not be entertained for want of territorial jurisdiction.
Issue (ii): Whether, in the circumstances of the case, any order could be made against the third respondent when no action of that authority was under challenge in the present writ petition.
Analysis: The Court noted that the third respondent had not passed the order impugned in the writ petition and that no action of that respondent was under challenge in the present proceeding. The restraint earlier imposed on the third respondent was found unwarranted in the final adjudication of the writ petition.
Conclusion: No order against the third respondent was warranted in the writ petition.
Final Conclusion: The writ petition was not maintainable before the Court on territorial grounds, and the petitioner was left to pursue remedies before the appropriate forum having jurisdiction.
Ratio Decidendi: A High Court will not entertain a writ petition under Article 226 against an order passed by an authority outside its territorial jurisdiction, particularly where the challenge would require determination of disputed factual issues and no impugned action of another cited authority is directly under challenge.
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