Bona fide conduct in GST writ challenges is essential; undisclosed facts and belated duress claims defeated relief.

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....In GST demand proceedings, a writ challenge to an ex parte demand requires bona fide conduct and full disclosure. The petitioner did not specifically deny receiving notice at its registered email, failed to disclose available GSTR-2A input tax credit or address allegations of excess credit and suppressed turnover, and gave an undertaking and post-dated cheques after its bank account was attached. Having obtained release of the account without contemporaneously alleging duress, it could not later raise that plea. The HC treated the challenge as an afterthought lacking bona fides and declined discretionary writ relief, dismissing the petition with costs.....