Judicial discipline requires a High Court to follow a Coordinate...

Judicial discipline requires a High Court to follow a Coordinate Bench decision in the same assessee's preceding assessment year where the material facts are identical. In reassessment proceedings concerning an alleged bogus insurance-brokerage transaction, the facts differed only by assessment year from those previously considered. That identity of facts precluded a different view on the challenge to the preliminary reassessment order and consequential reassessment notice. The writ petition was therefore dismissed.