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2016 (8) TMI 1068

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....handigarh. Learned counsel for the petitioner, while placing reliance upon a Division Bench judgment of this Court in CWP No. 24967 of 2015-M/s NVR Forgings vs Union of India and others, decided on 22.3.2016, submitted that the impugned order passed by the Revisionary Authority cannot be sustained, as the same has been passed by the officer of the same rank as is the appellate authority. The Revisionary Authority had to be an officer of a higher rank than the appellate authority, whose order is impugned before the Revisionary Authority. Learned counsel for the respondents does not dispute the aforesaid legal position. Heard learned counsel for the parties and perused the paper book. This Court in M/s NVR Forgings's case (supra), whi....

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....ation Commissioner was acting as assessing authority and though revisional powers were delegated to the Deputy Excise and Taxation Commissioner, the said powers could be exercised by an officer only in relation to orders passed by his subordinates and not in respect of orders passed by officer of the same or higher rank. He relies upon judgment of Andhra Pradesh High Court in Sri Satya Winery & Distillery Private Ltd. v. State of A.P. (2000) 117 STC 291 and submits that the question of law may be read accordingly. The question appears to have been wrongly formulated. It has been pointed out that the judgment of Andhra Pradesh High Court in Sri Satya Winery has been accepted by the State of Haryana and instructions dated 12.10.1990 have been....