2019 (4) TMI 1742

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....s. JUDGMENT Heard Mr. Jyoti Ranjan Jha, learned counsel for the petitioner and Mr. Kumar Pankaj, learned AC to SC-5 for the State. 2. The petitioner is aggrieved by the order of assessment passed by the Assistant Commissioner of Commercial Taxes, Munger Circle, Munger in purported exercise of power vested in him under section 31 of the Bihar Value Added tax Act, 2005 (hereinafter referred to as....

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....uestion to support the service of notice through electronic mail. 4. Mr. Jha while accepting the default on the part of the petitioner in not checking on the e-mail submits that in similar circumstances existing, a Co-ordinate Bench while considering the similar issues arising from C.W.J. C. No. 11798 of 2017 (Aariket Traders v. State of Bihar), C. W. J. C. No. 17606 of 2016 (Kohinoor Boot House ....

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....ent to shut the doors for such assessee and for proceeding ex parte. 6. Section 31 of "the Act" has a purpose behind when it allows the assessee to present his case before any such order is passed and obviously an ex parte order passed is an exception to the legislative intent as well as the object behind the principle of due representation. May be, where an assessee continues to default on a not....