Proper service of GST show cause notice failed when uploaded under the wrong portal tab, invalidating ex parte adjudication.

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....Uploading a GST show cause notice under "Additional Notices" instead of "Notices and Orders" was held to be no proper service, so the ex parte adjudication order and recovery notice based on that notice were unsustainable for breach of natural justice. The impugned notice, adjudication order and recovery notice were quashed, with liberty to issue a fresh show cause notice and proceed afresh in accordance with law. The Court also clarified that limitation would not prevent issuance of a fresh notice in substitution of the earlier one.....