2008 (5) TMI 382

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.... Hon'ble Mr Justice V.K. Jain 1. Whether Reporters of local papers may be allowed to see the judgment? 2. To be referred to the Reporter or not? 3. Whether the judgment should be reported in Digest? BADAR DURREZ AHMED, J (ORAL) 1. In these petitions, there are essentially two grievances raised by the petitioner who appeared before us in person. The first grievance is with regard to ....

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.... could, in his view, be transferred under that provision. 2. The second grievance of the petitioner is that the application moved by him under Section 154 of the said Act in respect of appeal Nos. 144, 145 and 146/95-96 was disposed of by the Commissioner of Income-tax (Appeals), New Delhi without giving him an opportunity of hearing. The said order disposing of the application under Section 15....

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....rd to transfer of the case from Gurgaon to Delhi, the petitioner has agreed before us that he shall not press this point and as such no grievance subsists insofar as the transfer of the entire case is concerned. 4. With regard to the second issue, we find that the petitioner has been filing repeated applications under Section 154 and that this practice is not to be encouraged. The petitioner ha....

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....that the petitioner was not given a personal hearing before disposing of the said application. Consequently, we set aside the impugned order dated 26.04.2005 and direct the Commissioner of Income-tax (Appeals), New Delhi to grant the opportunity of hearing to the petitioner and thereafter pass an order on the said application in accordance with law. 6. We make it clear that the fourth applicati....