Invalid Service of Notice u/s 148: Efforts to Locate Assessee Required, Affixing Notice on Door Insufficient.

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....Service of notice u/s 148 - The service of Notice u/s 148 by ordering a substituted service, as contemplated in Order V-Rule 20 of the Code of Civil Procedure, 1908 (5 of 1908), in the absence of using of all reasonable and due diligence for locating the whereabouts of the assessee, not being as per the mandate of law cannot be subscribed on our part. Our aforesaid view that service of notice in case of an assessee residing abroad, by affixing the same on the main door of his local residence in India is not a valid service, is supported by the judgment of the Hon’ble High Court of Allahabad - AT....