1999 (11) TMI 832

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....rieved by the order of the Tribunal in not extending the time further for filing the "D" forms, the present tax revision case is filed by the assessee. The Tribunal noted that despite the fact that the time was extended as a last chance till January 31, 1991 by an order dated January 11, 1991 passed in T.M.P. No. 4 of 1991, the petitioner failed to file the "D" forms and, therefore, the Tribunal s....

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....ereof were filed before the Tribunal. In these circumstances, we are inclined to take the view that the Tribunal ought to have further extended the time in the interests of justice; otherwise, the just claim of the petitioner will be defeated by unintentional omission to file the "D" forms. The fact that the petitioner has been pursuing with the concerned authorities of the Kerala State to issue t....

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....th the fact that while extending the time on the second occasion, the Tribunal granted only twenty days' time as against two months' time requested by the petitioner and that the petitioner was able to get the "D" forms within three weeks thereafter, impel us to take the view that the Tribunal should have adopted a more liberal approach and, therefore, in the peculiar circumstances of the case, th....