Stay conditions eased for faceless assessment; interim payment reduced to Rs.1 lakh monthly until 5% paid or appeal decided

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....The HC modified the stay conditions relating to an ex parte faceless assessment order which fixed taxable income at an amount vastly exceeding the assessee's reported earnings and where Revenue had seized bank accounts and immovable property. The court found the earlier requirement-payment of Rs.5 lakh per month until 20% of the demand was discharged-unduly onerous and substituted an interim regime: the assessee must pay Rs.1,00,000 per month until either 5% of the outstanding demand is paid or the appellate authority decides the appeal, whichever occurs earlier. The HC directed the appellate authority to decide the appeal expeditiously, preferably within four months of receipt of certified copy, and restrained the assessee from alienating or mortgaging immovable property without prior written permission of the jurisdictional AO.....