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Special Court passed an order directing disbursement of certain amount in favour of 'C' from attached account of 'F', subject matter of which was seized by said Special Court

SUPREME COURT OF INDIA

 

CIVIL APPEAL NO. 4207 OF 2015

 

Assistant Commissioner of Income-tax..............................................Appellant.
v.
Pallav Sheth ......................................................................................Respondent

 

A.K. SIKRI AND N.V. RAMANA, JJ.

 
Date :JULY  12, 2016 
 
Appearances

Maninder Singh, ASG, Rupesh Kumar and Mrs. Anil Katiyar, Advs. for the Appellant. 
Pradeep Sancheti, Sr. Adv., Ms. Sunita Dutt, Shashank Trivedi and Ms. Joyti Mendiratta, Advs. for the Respondent.


Section 220 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 — Collection and recovery of tax — Special Court passed an order directing disbursement of certain amount in favour of 'C' from attached account of 'F', subject matter of which was seized by said Special Court, Matter was to be remanded back to Special Court to consider revenue's objection that it had priority over said amount —Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax vs. Pallav Shah.


ORDER


1. Delay condoned.

2. Appeal admitted. Finally heard.

3. In these two appeals filed by the Income Tax Department/Revenue there is a challenge to order dated 14.10.2011 which was passed by the Special Court (Trial of Offences Relating to Transaction in Securities) at Mumbai in SP.C.R. No. 13 of 2011. By that order the Special Court had directed, as interim measure, disbursement of amount in sum of Rs.2,88,62,273/- in favour of the respondent/Canbank Financial Services Ltd. It was released in favour of the respondent/Canbank Financial Services Ltd. from the attached account of Fairgrowth Financial Services Ltd., the subject matter of which is seized by the said Special Court. The Revenue was not heard when the aforesaid order was passed. According to the Revenue, it has the priority over the amount. For this reason, the Revenue preferred the review application which has been dismissed vide order dated 18.07.2014 without assigning any reasons or going through the issue raised by the Revenue.

4. The second appeal challenges the order passed in the review application. Without commenting upon the validity or legality of the order passed, we are of the opinion, that the Special Court should have dealt with the review application of the Revenue herein on merits and decided the issue on priority by giving detailed reasons. For this reason alone, the two orders passed by the Special Court Court are set aside and the matters are remitted back to the Special Court to pass fresh order after hearing the Revenue. We may make it clear that insofar as this Court is concerned, it has not expressed any opinion on the merits of this issue.

5. The appeals are disposed of in the above stated terms.

 

[2016] 241 TAXMAN 13 (SC)

 
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