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Issues: (i) Whether the petitioner was entitled to an opportunity to respond to the notice issued under section 148A(b) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 before the reassessment order was made. (ii) Whether the order passed under section 148A(d) and the consequential notice under section 148 were liable to be quashed and the matter remanded for fresh consideration.
Issue (i): Whether the petitioner was entitled to an opportunity to respond to the notice issued under section 148A(b) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 before the reassessment order was made.
Analysis: The petitioner had not responded to the notice issued under section 148A(b), and the time granted for response was found to be short in the circumstances. The Court considered the factual position that the petitioner was a public trust running a school and concluded that a further opportunity to reply should be granted.
Conclusion: The petitioner was held entitled to file a reply to the notice under section 148A(b).
Issue (ii): Whether the order passed under section 148A(d) and the consequential notice under section 148 were liable to be quashed and the matter remanded for fresh consideration.
Analysis: In view of the need to afford the petitioner an opportunity to reply, the impugned order and the consequential notice could not be sustained. The matter was directed to be reconsidered afresh, with the fresh decision to be reasoned and preceded by a personal hearing. The period from the original notice till the fresh order was directed to be excluded for limitation purposes under the reassessment provisions.
Conclusion: The order under section 148A(d) and the consequential notice under section 148 were quashed and set aside, and the matter was remanded for de novo consideration.
Final Conclusion: The petition succeeded to the extent that the reassessment action was set aside and restored for fresh adjudication after granting the petitioner an opportunity to reply and be heard.
Ratio Decidendi: Where the assessee is denied a meaningful opportunity to respond to a notice under section 148A(b), the resulting section 148A(d) order and consequential notice cannot be sustained and must be set aside for fresh consideration after affording due hearing.
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