Valid show cause notice is indispensable to GST adjudication; DRC-01 cannot replace notice addressed to the taxable person.

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....Service of a valid show cause notice upon the person chargeable with tax is presented as indispensable to GST demand adjudication. Section 73(1) requires notice to that person, while Form GST DRC-01 under Rule 142(1)(a) operates only as an electronic summary of the notice. The notice must specify the allegations, proposed liability and factual basis, enabling an effective response. A DRC-01 merely tabulating tax dues, particularly when accompanied by a notice addressed to another taxpayer, does not provide the required cause or opportunity of defence and cannot replace the statutory notice. Defective notice undermines consequential demand and appellate proceedings.....