https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=379466 Disparaging judicial remarks against a departmental officer and standing counsel may be expunged where the affected persons were not heard, the record does not justify the strictures, and the comments were not necessary for deciding the writ petitions. The court applied the settled three-fold test for adverse remarks and held that the writ petitioner/assessee had no stake in the expunction issue, so notice was unnecessary. On that basis, the remarks were found unsustainable and liable to deletion from the common order. en-us Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0530 Thu, 02 May 2019 13:29:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=379466 Disparaging judicial remarks against a departmental officer and standing counsel may be expunged where the affected persons were not heard, the record does not justify the strictures, and the comments were not necessary for deciding the writ petitions. The court applied the settled three-fold test for adverse remarks and held that the writ petitioner/assessee had no stake in the expunction issue, so notice was unnecessary. On that basis, the remarks were found unsustainable and liable to deletion from the common order. Case-Laws Income Tax Wed, 03 Apr 2019 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=379466