https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=24548 Section 167 of the U. P. Land Revenue Act, 1901 was treated as mandatory: if the highest bidder failed to deposit twenty-five per cent of the bid immediately, the land had to be put up and sold again. The authority had no discretion to ignore that default or to sustain the sale without ordering a resale. On the bidder's failure to make the required deposit, the sale was liable to be cancelled and re-auction directed; the contrary order was held to rest on an error of law and was quashed. en-us Wed, 13 Jul 1988 00:00:00 +0530 Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:10:57 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=24548 Section 167 of the U. P. Land Revenue Act, 1901 was treated as mandatory: if the highest bidder failed to deposit twenty-five per cent of the bid immediately, the land had to be put up and sold again. The authority had no discretion to ignore that default or to sustain the sale without ordering a resale. On the bidder's failure to make the required deposit, the sale was liable to be cancelled and re-auction directed; the contrary order was held to rest on an error of law and was quashed. Case-Laws Income Tax Wed, 13 Jul 1988 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=24548