2025 (7) TMI 402

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....filed by the Petitioner under Article 226 of the Constitution of India challenging the show cause notice dated 04th December, 2023 (hereinafter, 'the SCN') issued by the Department of Trade & Taxes, Government of N.C.T. of Delhi, pertaining to the Financial Year 2018-19, as also the consequent order dated 29th April, 2024 passed by the office of Sales Tax Officer Class II/ AVATO, Delhi (hereinafter, 'the impugned order'). 3. The petition also challenges the vires of Notification No. 56/2023- Central Tax dated 28th December, 2023 and Notification No. 9/2023-Central Tax dated 31st March, 2023 (hereinafter 'impugned notifications'). 4. The impugned notifications were under consideration before this Court in a batch of matters with the le....

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....idity of Notification no. 56. Whereas, the Guwahati High Court has quashed Notification No. 56 of 2023 (Central Tax). 6. The Telangana High Court while not delving into the vires of the assailed notifications, made certain observations in respect of invalidity of Notification No. 56 of 2023 (Central Tax). This judgment of the Telangana High Court is now presently under consideration by the Supreme Court in S.L.P No 4240/2025 titled M/s HCC-SEW-MEIL-AAG JV v. Assistant Commissioner of State Tax & Ors. The Supreme Court vide order dated 21st February, 2025, passed the following order in the said case: "1. The subject matter of challenge before the High Court was to the legality, validity and propriety of the Notification No.....

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....d order reads as under: "65. Almost all the issues, which have been raised before us in these present connected cases and have been noticed hereinabove, are the subject matter of the Hon'ble Supreme Court in the aforesaid SLP. 66. Keeping in view the judicial discipline, we refrain from giving our opinion with respect to the vires of Section 168- A of the Act as well as the notifications issued in purported exercise of power under Section 168-A of the Act which have been challenged, and we direct that all these present connected cases shall be governed by the judgment passed by the Hon'ble Supreme Court and the decision thereto shall be binding on these cases too. 67. Since the matter is pending before the....

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....including appellate remedies may be permitted to be pursued by the Petitioners, without delving into the question of the validity of the said notifications at this stage. 11. The said categories and proposed reliefs have been broadly put to the parties today. They may seek instructions and revert by tomorrow i.e., 23rd April, 2025." 5. Subsequently, this Court, having noted that the validity of the central notifications-Notification Nos. 56/2023-CT and 09/2023-CT-is presently under consideration before the Hon'ble Supreme Court in S.L.P. No. 4240/2025 titled M/s HCC-SEW-MEIL-AAG JV v. Assistant Commissioner of State Tax & Ors., had disposed of matters wherein challenge was limited to the central notifications, after addressing o....