Skip to main content

Court Tells Tax Department To Reply On Kapil Sibal's Challenge To Notice

The Delhi High Court on Thursday restrained the Income Tax Department from proceeding further on the show cause notice issued to Rajya Sabha MP and senior advocate Kapil Sibal in relation to the assessment proceedings pending against him.

A bench of Justice Rajiv Shakdher and Justice Tara Vitasta Ganju issued a notice and asked the income tax authorities to file a response on the petition of the former Congress leader.

"We are of the view that since the impugned notice has been challenged on jurisdiction as well as on the breach of principles of natural justice, it would require some amount of deliberation," the bench said.

"In the meanwhile, the concerned officer will stay his hands vis-a-vis the show cause notice of March 11, 2023," it added.

The court listed the matter for further hearing on September 14 and asked the officer concerned to first deal with the objections of Mr Sibal.

Kapil Sibal has challenged the notice issued by the IT department under Section 153C of the Income Tax Act concerning (assessment year) AY 2013.

Senior advocate P Chidambaram, who was representing Mr Sibal, said the authorities seemed to be in great haste to conclude the assessment proceedings.

He said a search concerning the World Window Group was conducted in May 2018 and in so far as Mr Sibal was concerned, the notice under Section 153C of the Act was issued six years later in May 2021.

"Pursuant to the said notice, the petitioner (Sibal) filed his return on June 16, 2021. A request was made on November 3, 2021 seeking a copy of the satisfaction note and reasons/material based on which the notice under Section 153C had been issued. This request was reiterated by petitioner on March 1, 2023," Mr Chidambaram said.

He said the satisfaction note was furnished to Kapil Sibal on March 9 this year and material or reasons were furnished to him on March 10.

The counsel for the IT authorities said the officer concerned can proceed further on the basis of the material brought to his notice.

(Except for the headline, this story has not been edited by NDTV staff and is published from a syndicated feed.)



from NDTV News-India-news https://ift.tt/R9J0ukh
via IFTTT
Labels:

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Terrifying video shows plane flying through Hurricane Milton

The US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) Aircraft Operations Center has released a video footage showing a research aircraft experiencing severe turbulence while flying directly into Hurricane Milton. The video, captured from the passenger side window of "Miss Piggy," a Lockheed WP-3D Orion aircraft, shows the plane navigating through a dense, gray sky while being pounded by intense rainfall. In a post on X, the NOAA Aircraft Operations Center said, "Bumpy ride into Hurricane Milton on NOAA WP-3D Orion." The agency explained that the purpose of the flight was to gather data for hurricane research and contribute to improving the storm's forecast. The aircraft carried a team of at least four NOAA researchers on board. The video footage shows Electrical Engineer Tom Brannigan seated at the AVAPS (Airborne Vertical Atmospheric Profiling System) as the plane experiences loud and violent shaking. As the turbulence intensifies, a plastic bag tied
Post a Comment
Read more

BJP's Poll Body Meets To Decide Candidates For Upcoming Assembly Polls

The BJP's Central Election Committee met on Friday to finalise its candidates for the coming assembly polls amid indications that the party's top brass may field Union ministers in Rajasthan as it did in Madhya Pradesh. Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Union ministers Rajnath Singh and Amit Shah and BJP president J P Nadda among other CEC members brainstormed following hectic meetings the national leadership had with state leaders from Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh and Telangana in the last couple of days to address regional concerns and narrow down the list of probables. Sources said this could be the last meeting of the BJP's CEC, which has already met three times until now. The BJP is yet to name any candidate for the 119-member Telangana assembly elections slated for November 30. It has declared 41 candidates, including seven MPs, for the November 25 elections to the 200-member Rajasthan assembly and 136 for the November 17 elections to the 230-member Madhya Pradesh assemb
Post a Comment
Read more