2021 (10) TMI 155

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....e Petitioner : Mr.Prabhumukunth Arunkumar For the Respondent : R1 - No appearance R2 - Mr.Raghav menon For Mr.R.Sivaraman ORDER The order passed by the first respondent / Settlement Commission in proceedings dated 26.07.2013 is under challenge in the present writ petition. 2. The learned counsel appearing on behalf of the writ petitioner made a submission that based on certain incorrec....

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....the learned counsel for the petitioner reiterated that the order passed by the Settlement Commission is perverse as the findings cannot be construed as a Settlement. It is further contended that during the course of decision making, the first respondent has not considered the facts as pleaded and in fact, the facts plays are erroneously considered by the first respondent. The said facts are stated....

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....re in the delivery challan, and in the absence of the receipts issued by the assessee to different customers from whom the assessee claimed to have received old gold, the authenticity of the receipt of old gold from the customers is not fully verifiable. Hence the assessee's claim is not acceptable." 4. Based on the mistake crept in, immunity was granted in favour of the second respondent. ....

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.... 6. This Court is of the considered opinion that the delay of about six months in filing a writ petition by the petitioner / Department cannot be considered as enormous, so as to reject the writ petition at the threshold. The ground raised in the writ petition is that based on certain incorrect facts and details, immunity was granted in favour of the second respondent, which caused prejudice to....