Income Tax Department Can Challenge Bank Mortgages in DRT to Assert Priority of Charge Over Attached Properties.

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....Recovery proceeding - priority of charge - void transactions U/s 281 - The Income Tax Department is also free to seek its remedy before the appropriate forum including DRT to establish by leading cogent evidence that the action had been initiated which constituted “proceedings” prior in time of creation of an equitable mortgage in favour of the Bank so as to seek a declaration of the mortgage being void or the attachment being prior in time so as to seek a priority of charge. - HC....