M/S Seeram Padmanabha Jewellers Port Ltd., v. The Income Tax Officer

THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE V. RAMASUBRAMANIAN AND THE HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE J. UMA DEVI WRIT PETITION No. 5862 of 2017 ORDER: (Per VRS,J) Though the petitioner has come up with the above writ petition, challenging a notice issued under Section 226(3) of the Income Tax Act, 1961, the learned counsel for the petitioner submitted that for the present, the relief can be confined only to a direction to dispose of the statutory appeal within a timeframe.

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Heard Ms. S.V.Bharatha Lakshmi, learned counsel for the petitioner, and Mr. B. Narasimha Sarma, learned senior standing counsel for Income Tax Department, appearing for the respondents 1 to 4.

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The petitioner claims that an appeal has been filed on 09.05.2016 before the 4th respondent, and that the same is pending for nearly ten months. A copy of acknowledgment, showing that the petitioner filed an appeal electronically on 09.05.2016, has been filed as a document.

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Therefore, the Writ Petition is disposed of, without expressing any opinion on merits, directing the 4th respondent to dispose of the appeal said to have been filed by the petitioner on 09.05.2016, within

a period of eight (8) weeks from the date of receipt of a copy of this order.

Consequently, miscellaneous petitions if any pending in the writ petition shall stand dismissed. No order as to costs. __________________________ V. RAMASUBRAMANIAN, J ______________ J. UMA DEVI, J.

16th March, 2017 cbs

THE HON'BLE SRI JUSTICE V. RAMASUBRAMANIAN  AND THE HON'BLE MS. JUSTICE J. UMA DEVI Writ Petition No. 5862 of 2017 (disposed of) 16th March, 2017 cbs