1982 (12) TMI 180

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....(g) on 21st August, 1979, for having failed to obtain registration for the year 1975-76. When the notice of the proceedings was given to the assessee, the assessee submitted an explanation. The Sales Tax Officer while noticing the explanation, did not attach weight to it and imposed a penalty of Rs. 500. The assessee made a representation but no representation lay against an order imposing a....

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....manded the matter to the Sales Tax Officer to impose a proper penalty under the law. In this revision, the assessee's grievance is that the assessee's explanation was not taken into account by the Tribunal while making the impugned order. It is true that the assessee had not appealed against the order of the Sales Tax Officer but, in an appeal by the State in which a higher penalty was sough....