Satyajit Ghosh v. The State Of West Bengal And ORS.

ss 25.11.2024 WPA 27184 of 2024 Satyajit Ghosh Vs.

The State of West Bengal & Ors.

Mr. Himangshu Kumar Ray Mr. Sushant Bagaria Ms. Shiwani Shaw ... ... for the petitioner Mr. Anirban Ray Md. T.M. Siddiqui Mr. T. Chakraborty Mr. S. Sanyal ... ...for the State Mr. Uday Shankar Bhattacharya Mr. Tapan Bhanja ... ... for the CGST 1.

Heard learned counsel appearing for the parties. 2.

The main issue involved in this writ petition relates to the cancellation of petitioner's registration on the ground of non-filing of return. Petitioner submits that after the cancellation of its registration, it has paid all the revenue due and further agrees to pay any revenue due which is required to be paid for restoring its registration and relies on a judgement dated 09.04.2024 passed by the Hon'ble Chief Justice and the Hon'ble Justice Hiranmay Bhattacharyya.

3.

Considering the submissions of the parties, this writ petition being WAP 25452 of 2024 is disposed of by setting aside the impugned orders by both the concerned authorities and by directing the respondent CGST/WBGST authority to restore the petitioner's registration and open the portal for a period of 45 days

from date of communication of this order by the counsel of the respondent authority to enable the petitioner to make the payment of revenue due as well as any other due including penalty to be indicated by the respondent authority concerned within a period of 15 working days. If the petitioner fails to make the payment of revenue due after indication of the amount by the GST authority, the respondent authority concerned shall be free to block the portal again and cancel the registration.

4.

There shall be no order as to costs.

5.

All parties shall act on the server copy of this order duly downloaded from the official website of this Court. (Rajarshi Bharadwaj, J.)