Arjun Anil Salgaocar., v. Assistant Director Of Income-Tax (Investigation) And 4 ORS.,

1 wp1107-18dt.04.07.19 Santosh

IN THE HIGH COURT OF BOMBAY AT GOA

WRIT PETITION NO.1107 OF 2018 Arjun Anil Salgaocar.

...... Petitioner.

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Assistant Director of Income-Tax & ors. ...... Respondents. Mr. P. Pardiwala, Senior Advocate with Mr. Ashwin D. Bhobe, Ms. Carmita Mashelkar and Ms. K. Govekar, Advocates for the Petitioner. Ms.Amira Abdul Razaq, Standing Counsel for the Respondents. Coram : S.C. Gupte & Nutan D. Sardessai, JJ.

Date : 4 th July, 2019.

P.C. :- After the matter is heard at some length, learned Senior Counsel appearing for the Petitioner seeks leave to withdraw the petition. The petition is dismissed as withdrawn.

2. It is made clear that the legal issue arising in the present writ petition, namely, whether or not, after search and seizure operations and a notice issued under Section 153A of the Income-tax Act, 1961("Act") in pursuance of such search and seizure operations, whilst the matter is pending before the Assessing Officer, the authorities named under Section 131(1A) of the Act can exercise their powers provided for therein, has not been decided by us and is kept open.

Nutan D. Sardessai, J. S.C. Gupte, J.