2024 (12) TMI 1088

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....ndent : C.S.C. ORDER 1. Heard Ms. Vedika Nath, learned counsel for the assessee and Sri Ankur Agarwal, learned counsel for the revenue. 2. Challenge has been raised to the order dated April 16, 2024 passed by the Assistant Commissioner, State Tax, Sector-1, Balia for the tax period April 2018 to March 2019, whereby demand has been raised against the present petitioner. 3. Solitary grou....

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.... referred to as the 'Act') as interpreted by a coordinate bench of this Court in Bharat Mint & Allied Chemicals Vs. Commissioner Commerical Tax & 2 Ors., (2022) 48 VLJ 325, it has been then asserted, the Assessing Authority was bound to afford opportunity of personal hearing to the petitioner before he may have passed an adverse assessment order. Insofar as the assessment order has raised ....

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....ed order passed consequently. 6. Having heard learned counsel for the parties and having perused the record, Section 75(4) of the Act reads as under : "An opportunity of hearing shall be granted where a request is received in writing from the person chargeable with tax or penalty, or where any adverse decision is contemplated against such person." 7. We find ourselves in complete ag....

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....ty of hearing. It has to be ensured that such opportunity is granted in real terms. The stand of the assessee may remain unclear unless minimal opportunity of hearing is first granted. Only thereafter, the explanation furnished may be rejected and demand created. 9. Not only such opportunity would ensure observance of rules of natural of justice but it would allow the authority to pass appropri....