TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2018 (7) TMI 1623
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....chy Road, belonging to M/s.NEPC India Ltd., and later transferred to the petitioner vide Sale Deed dated 05.09.2011 registered as Doc. No.3016 has been attached vide order dated 29.02.2012. Further, the notice states that the said property has been attached, as the transfer in the name of the petitioner is null and void in view of Section 281(1) and Rule-16 of the 2nd Schedule to the Income Tax Act, 1961. The petitioner was prohibited from dealing with the property in any manner. 3.The petitioner would contend that the respondent, by the impugned notice, declared the transfer of property in the name of the petitioner as null and void and the same is totally against the principles of Rule-16 of the 2nd Schedule to the Income Tax Act, 1961. ....
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....d without notice of the pendency of such proceeding or, as the case may be, without notice of such tax or other sum payable by the assessee; or with the previous permission of the [Assessing] Officer. 8.On a reading of the said provision, it is seen that transfers, during the pendency of any proceeding under the Act or after the completion thereof, but before the service of notice under Rule 2 of the Second Schedule, if an assessee creates a charge on a property, such charge or transfer shall be void against any claim in respect of any tax or any other sum payable by the assessee as a result of the completion of the said proceeding. 9.The language of Section 281(1) read with the proviso would make it clear that the onus is on the assessee....
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....e case of immovable property) at the date of the service of the notice issued under this Schedule to pay the arrears, or (b) (in the case of movable property) at the date of the attachment, he had some interest in, or was possessed of, the property in question. Rule 11(4) : Where, upon the said investigation, the Tax Recovery Officer is satisfied that, for the reason stated in the claim or objection, such property was not, at the said date, in the possession of the defaulter or of some person in trust for him or in the occupancy of a tenant or other person paying rent to him, or that, being in the possession of the defaulter at the said date, it was so in his possession, not on his own account or as his own property, but on account of ....