https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=780016 HC allowed the writ, holding the petition maintainable and declining to compel exhaustion of statutory appeals as futile after two decades of litigation. The court found the department's rejection of the refund as time-barred to be perverse, noting an earlier valid claim and order rejecting limitation, and held the department under statutory duty to refund the amount with interest and to pay compensation for the prolonged withholding. The departmental order rejecting the refund dated 04-01-2023 was set aside. en-us Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0530 Fri, 17 Oct 2025 08:08:41 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=780016 HC allowed the writ, holding the petition maintainable and declining to compel exhaustion of statutory appeals as futile after two decades of litigation. The court found the department's rejection of the refund as time-barred to be perverse, noting an earlier valid claim and order rejecting limitation, and held the department under statutory duty to refund the amount with interest and to pay compensation for the prolonged withholding. The departmental order rejecting the refund dated 04-01-2023 was set aside. Case-Laws Central Excise Wed, 03 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=780016