Limitation period exclusion requires fresh adjudication of refund claims; administrative rejections cannot ignore the judicial exclusion.

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....The text addresses denial of income tax refund applications where rejection rested solely on delay without applying the Supreme Court's exclusion of the limitation period from 15.03.2020 to 28.02.2022; the legal principle applied is that administrative refusals cannot ignore a binding judicial exclusion of limitation. Outcome: the impugned deficiency memos were quashed and the refund claims remitted for fresh, expeditious consideration in accordance with the exclusion, after affording the claimants a reasonable hearing and issuing a reasoned, speaking order.....