1979 (8) TMI 200

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....ssued by the assessing authority was an order against which an appeal lay under section 9 of the U.P. Sales Tax Act. The assessment years involved are 1953-54, 1954-55 and 1955-56. The certificates were issued between 1959-60. Why were the appeals filed in 1975 is not clear, but the appellate authority dismissed them on the finding that recovery certificates were only information and not orders; a....

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....ven assuming that such an unusual thing may happen, the assessee can always approach this Court under article 226 of the Constitution of India. In any case, the remedy of appeal is a statutory remedy and not an inherent right. It has to be seen whether section 9 of the Act permits filing of an appeal against recovery certificate. The section, before its amendment, ran as under: "Section 9. (1) ....

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....tificate and, therefore, the Additional Judge (Revisions) committed an error in holding that the appeal was maintainable. He obviously applied the amended section 9. The learned counsel for the assessee strongly pleaded that appeals having been filed in 1975 the amended provision of section 9 was applicable. Without deciding the question whether in respect of proceedings which were initiated prior....

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.... command or direction authoritatively given."   In Civil Procedure Code, "order" has been defined in section 2 as:   " 'Order' means the formal expression of any decision of a civil court which is not a decree." A recovery certificate is neither a formal expression of a decision nor a command or mandate; as such it cannot be considered to be an order. The analogy that it is in t....