2025 (8) TMI 599

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..... Avinash Poddar, Senior Advocate through V.C. with Mr. Ram Heda, Advocate. For the Respondent Nos. 5 to 8: Mr. N.R. Patil, AGP. P.C. Not on board. Taken on board. 2. Mr. Avinash Poddar, learned Senior Counsel appearing with Mr. Ram Heda, learned counsel for the petitioner, states that the issue involved in the present petition is identical to the one in Writ Petition Nos. 1596/2025 an....

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....nto an action under Section 74 of the Act, cannot be said to be permissible as the very Investigating Officer cannot act as an Adjudicating Officer. So as to substantiate this contention, not only support on facts is drawn from the initial notice dated 20/12/2023, but also from the subsequent proceedings initiated under Sections 67 and 74 of the Act on 19/01/2024 and subsequent thereto. 0....