Petition dismissed; show-cause notice upheld as not wholly without jurisdiction; demerger and 2018 Notification require full adjudication

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....The HC dismissed the petition and upheld the validity of the impugned show-cause notice issued to the transferor company, holding that the notice is not shown to be wholly without jurisdiction; factual and jurisdictional questions relating to the demerger and retrospective operation of the 2018 Notification require examination and cannot be summarily struck down. The Respondents are entitled to consider the demerger particulars and the applicability of the 2018 Notification when adjudicating the SCN, and the Petitioners are relegated to file a detailed response with full particulars and exhaust statutory remedies. The court found no exceptional circumstance to preclude adjudication or to quash the SCN at the threshold.....