2016 (3) TMI 1030

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....ty as a condition precedent for hearing of appeal without giving any discretion to the appellate authority to waive such deposit. Further prayer has been made for quashing the orders dated 19.12.2012, 29.11.2013 and 12.2.2015, Annexures P.1, P.3, P.3/A, P.5 and P.6 respectively. 2. A few facts relevant for the decision of the controversy involved as narrated in the petition may be noticed. The petitioner is a dealer duly registered under the provisions of the PVAT Act as well as the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956 (in short, "the CST Act"). It is engaged in the business of running a rice mill at Faridkot. It is an exempted unit having been granted exemption from 10.12.1999 to 9.12.2009. The petitioner had an unutilised exemption of Rs. 68,84,7....

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....013 (Punjab State Power Corporation Limited vs. The State of Punjab and Others) vide order dated 23.12.2015, wherein after considering the relevant statutory provisions and the case law on the point, following conclusions were drawn:- "33. It is, thus, concluded that even when no express power has been conferred on the first appellate authority to pass an order of interim injunction/protection, in our opinion, by necessary implication and intendment in view of various pronouncements and legal proposition expounded above and in the interest of justice, it would essentially be held that the power to grant interim injunction/protection is embedded in Section 62(5) of the PVAT Act. Instead of rushing to the High Court under Article 226 of the....