2022 (6) TMI 458

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....d 21.3.2022 (Annexure P-5) and order passed under Section 148A (d) dated 1.4.2022 (Annexure P-7) for the assessment year 2018-19. 2. Petitioner a partnership firm is an assessee under the Act. Return filed by the petitioner for the assessment year 2018-19 dated 30.9.2018 was processed under Section 143 (1) of the Act. The petitioner received notice under Section 148A (b) dated 21.3.2022 (Annexure P-5). The details of the information and the enquiry on the basis of issuance of notice were supplied to the petitioner along with the said notice. The petitioner raised objections vide communication dated 26.3.2022 (Annexure P-6). The said objections have been decided vide order dated 1.4.2022 (Annexure P-7). The challenge to the notice under S....

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....ncome-Tax Officer by a writ prohibition or mandamus is , therefore, not available to the assessee." 6. In 'Rasulji Buxji Kathawala vs. Income Tax Commissioner, Delhi and another' (Civil Writ No.44 of 1955, D/d. 2.4.1956) while dealing with the similar situation under the 1922 Act, Division Bench of Rajasthan High Court held that - "But where as in this case no part of the Act is being attacked, there is, in our opinion, no justification for us to intervene at this stage when other remedies which are not necessarily onerous are still open to the applicant under the Act. We, therefore, refuse to intervene at this stage in this case, and leave it to the applicant to pursue his remedies under the Income-tax Act so far as the....

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....C) 5787/2022 titled as Gulmuhar Silk Pvt. Ltd. vs. Income Tax Officer Ward 10(3) Delhi, while considering the same question held that: "6. Though it is the petitioner's case that the impugned order is erroneous on facts, yet this Court is of the opinion that the petitioner would have ample opportunity during the course of proceedings before different statutory forums to show that the finding of fact arrived at was erroneous. Moreover, at this stage, no assessment order has been passed and it has only been observed that it is a fit case for issuance of notice under Section 148 of the Act. In fact, the Supreme Court in Commissioner of Income Tax and Ors. Vs. Chhabil Das Agarwal, (2014) 1 SCC 603 has held that as the Income Tax Ac....