<h1>Retrospective GST Registration Cancellation under Section 16 Set Aside for Non-Speaking Order, Procedural Safeguards Stressed</h1> Allahabad High Court quashed a retrospective GST registration cancellation order issued by a state tax officer against a trader for alleged bogus input tax credit under section 16 of the GST Act, holding that the non-speaking order and perfunctory observation that the reply was 'not satisfactory' violated basic procedural safeguards and the requirement of reasoned administrative orders. The court characterized such arbitrary cancellations as amounting to 'economic death' of businesses, causing disproportionate hardship and disrupting legitimate trade. It directed that the judgment be forwarded to the commercial tax commissioner to issue administrative instructions within 15 days mandating reasoned orders, adequate opportunity of hearing, and penal consequences for officers passing non-speaking cancellation orders or denying reasonable opportunity.