2019 (9) TMI 818

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.... in different districts of the State: "1. Heard Sri Rahul Agarwal, Sri Nishant Mishra, Ms. Pooja Talwar, Sri Naveen Chandra Gupta, Sri Praveen Kumar, Sri Rishi Raj Kapoor, Sri Shubham Agrawal, Sri Murari Mohan Rai & Sri A.P. Mathur, learned counsel for the respective petitioners, Sri B.K. Pandey, learned counsel for the State-respondent and Sri Devendra Gupta, learned counsel appearing for the Union of India. 2. These and other connected writ petitions have come to be filed before this Court against the orders passed by various first appeal authorities under the U.P. GST Act, 2017 (hereinafter referred to as the Act). While these orders are mostly referable to Section 107 of the Act, the legislature has contemplated remedy....

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....proposal, which proposal is claimed to have already been made. In fact, the proposal made itself gave rise to an order by this Court, at Lucknow and another order passed by a division bench at Allahabad. That and other matters are now engaging attention of a Full Bench of this Court which has been constituted upon a recent order passed by yet another division bench of this Court. 6. It has been submitted by learned counsel for the petitioners that out of 6,163 first appeals instituted under the Act upto 15.07.2019, 480 (i.e. 7.8%) arise from areas falling within the jurisdiction of the Lucknow Bench of this Court (under the Amalgamation Order) whereas 5,683 (i.e. 92.2%) appeals arose from areas falling within the jurisdict....

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....71 of 2019, 169 of 2019, 842 of 2019, 252 of 2019, 242 of 2019, 578 of 2019, 574 of 2019, 920 of 2019, 897 of 2019, 916 of 2019, 901 of 2019, 1129 of 2018, 1226 of 2018, 804 of 2019, 805 of 2019, 808 of 2019 and 1635 of 2018 on 18.09.2019." 3. Shri Krishnaji Shukla, learned Central Government Counsel, has brought on record copy of a communication dated 07.09.2019 issued by the Director, GST Council Secretariat. The same has been marked as 'X' and retained on record. By that, it has been stated that the next meeting of the GST Council is proposed to be held on 20th of this month, wherein, by way of Agenda Item (ii), the said Council may consider constitution of regional and area Benches in Uttar Pradesh. Also, he would submit t....