2018 (2) TMI 1713

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....imary Agriculture Credit Cooperative Society Ltd., Chickmagalur, has filed this writ petition in this Court on 05.02.2018 seeking a mandamus direction to the Respondent - Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) to decide the pending appeal before him as well as the stay application expeditiously. 2. The said appeal was filed by the petitioner- assessee before the Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeal....

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....ned counsel for the petitioner Mr. Mahesh R. Uppin however submitted that in the present writ petition only a direction to the Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) to decide the pending appeal before him as expeditiously as possible is sought. For this purpose, he relied upon an order passed by the co-ordinate bench of this Court in W.P.No.15398/2013 (General Insurance Employees' Co-operative Cred....

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....ecessary prejudice is cause d to the appellants. The appellant-assessee in the present case is said to have filed the separate stay petition also before the Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) which is not yet decided. 7. The learned counsel for the petitioner also submitted that an application has also been filed before the Assessing Authority for not treating the assessee in default under Se....

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....speaking orders in the matter after providing a reasonable opportunity of hearing to the petitioner - assessee.   The petitioner in the first instance may appear before the Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals) in the first instance on 20.02.2018 and before the Asst. Commissioner of Income Tax, Ward-2, Chikkamagalur, on 27.02.2018. The said authorities are directed to pass appropriate speak....