Steel-timber construction shuttering/formwork tariff classification dispute: essential character held steel, classified as shuttering under Heading 73...
Family-linked property purchases using fabricated loan agreements and benami-style arrangements held to be crime proceeds; attachment upheld, appeal d...
Charitable tree plantation and maintenance for environmental preservation treated as "charitable activity", exempt from GST under Notification 12/2017...
Whether proceedings under Section 153C were validly initiated: Court held the foundational statutory prerequisite-creation of an asset under the scheme and the fourth proviso to Section 153A-appears absent because the ledger entries relate to expenditure and TDS was deducted, undermining the jurisdictional basis for a Section 153C notice; outcome: petitioner has a plausible ground to oppose the proceedings. Direction to assessing officer to decide petitioner's objections and pass a reasoned order within the specified short period, with communication to petitioner. - HC
Whether proceedings under Section 153C were validly initiated: Court held the foundational statutory prerequisite-creation of an asset under the scheme and the fourth proviso to Section 153A-appears absent because the ledger entries relate to expenditure and TDS was deducted, undermining the jurisdictional basis for a Section 153C notice; outcome: petitioner has a plausible ground to oppose the proceedings. Direction to assessing officer to decide petitioner's objections and pass a reasoned order within the specified short period, with communication to petitioner. - HC
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