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Issues: Whether the assessee was entitled to a hearing before the Local Committee while its grievance against a high-pitched assessment was examined, and whether the Local Committee could be treated as an alternative forum for disputing the assessment.
Analysis: The Standard Operating Procedure governing grievance petitions required the Local Committee to examine whether a prima facie case of high-pitched assessment existed and to submit a report with reasons, but it did not provide for a personal hearing to the assessee at that stage. The grievance mechanism was intended only to screen and report on the nature of the assessment and not to function as a substitute for appellate or dispute-resolution proceedings. Since the petitioner had already been informed that the Committee did not treat the case as high-pitched, the demand for a hearing before the Committee had no basis in the governing procedure.
Conclusion: The assessee had no right to insist on a hearing before the Local Committee, and the Committee was not an alternative forum for challenging the assessment.
Final Conclusion: The writ petition failed, and the petitioner was relegated to pursue the statutory appellate remedy against the assessment order.
Ratio Decidendi: Where the governing grievance procedure does not provide for a hearing before the Local Committee, no such right can be implied, and the Committee's role remains confined to administrative scrutiny of whether the case is high-pitched.
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