1995 (7) TMI 396

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....HAMMED QUADRI, J.Section 17-B of the A.P. General Sales Tax Act, 1957, provides thus: "Provisional attachment of property to protect revenue in certain cases.- (1) Where, during the pendency of any proceeding for the assessment of any turnover or for the assessment or reassessment of any turnover which has escaped assessment, the assessing authority is of the opinion that for the purpose of prot....

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....e Revenue in certain cases. The classes of cases in which this power can be invoked are indicated in the main body of the section and they are: (i) pendency of any proceedings for the assessment of any turnover; or (ii) for the assessment or reassessment of turnover which has escaped assessment. This power can be invoked in a case where the assessing authority is of the opinion that for the purpo....

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....rdinary power intended to be exercised where the proceedings for assessment of turnover or assessment or reassessment of escaped turnover, are pending. In a case where the assessment proceedings have been completed and the assessee has filed an appeal against the order of assessment and the appellate authority has granted conditional stay for recovery of the tax assessed, the power under section 1....

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....ng disposal of the appeal before the Tribunal. In compliance with the said orders the petitioner, it is stated, has furnished bank guarantee on November 11, 1993. However, the Commercial Tax Officer, the first respondent herein, has issued the impugned order of attachment. Sri Srinivasa Reddy, the learned counsel for the petitioner, contends that the impugned order is wholly arbitrary and unsust....