1974 (5) TMI 12

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....cer passed an assessment order under s. 23(4) of the Income-tax Act, 1922, as the assessee had failed to comply with certain notice. On September 14, 1957, the assessee filed an application under section 27 praying for cancellation of the ex parte assessment order. On September 21, 1957, the assessee filed on appeal against the original assessment order. On January 21, 1967, the Income-tax Officer....

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....o jurisdiction to dispose of the appeal. The above order was, therefore, bad in law. It was also urged that the assessee had challenged the assessment order on grounds in addition to those taken in the application under section 27 and for this reason also the appeal could not be said to have become infructuous. The Tribunal did not record any finding on this submission, but found that since it was....

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.... part of the original assessment order remained in force thereafter. Section 31 of the Indian Income-tax Act, 1922, provides as follows: " (1) The Appellate Assistant Commissioner shall fix a day and place for the hearing of the appeal, and may, from time to time, adjourn the hearing. (2) The Appellate Assistant Commissioner may, before disposing of any appeal, make such further enquiry a....

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....raordinary situation arises in which on all hands it is admitted that by the disappearance of the assessment order which was the subject-matter of appeal, the appeal cannot possibly be disposed of on merits, no matter what ground is taken in the memo of appeal, then in such a situation the procedure mentioned in section 31 will become inapplicable. The Appellate Assistant Commissioner was, in our ....