Gujarat High Court
Reckitt Benckiser Healthcare India ... vs Deputy Commissioner Of Income Tax on 16 August, 2016
Author: Akil Kureshi
Bench: Akil Kureshi, A.J. Shastri
C/SCA/3503/2016 ORDER
IN THE HIGH COURT OF GUJARAT AT AHMEDABAD
SPECIAL CIVIL APPLICATION NO. 3503 of 2016
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RECKITT BENCKISER HEALTHCARE INDIA PRIVATE
LIMITED....Petitioner(s)
Versus
DEPUTY COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX....Respondent(s)
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Appearance:
MR B S SOPARKAR, ADVOCATE for the Petitioner(s) No. 1
MR NITIN K MEHTA, ADVOCATE for the Respondent(s) No. 1
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CORAM: HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE AKIL KURESHI
and
HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE A.J. SHASTRI
Date : 16/08/2016
ORAL ORDER
(PER : HONOURABLE MR.JUSTICE AKIL KURESHI)
1. Learned counsel, Mr.Nitin Mehta for the department has filed a leave note for today as well as for 19.8.2016. Effectively therefore he has declared himself unavailability for the whole of the week.
2. Currently there are two Division Benches taking up income-tax cases. With a view to accommodating advocates appearing in income-tax matters, a broad informal arrangement was worked out with the consensus of all advocates that this bench would take up as far as possible, income-tax cases from Monday to Wednesday; Thursday and Friday to be assigned to non-income-tax cases. This Page 1 of 2 HC-NIC Page 1 of 2 Created On Sat Aug 20 00:07:52 IST 2016 C/SCA/3503/2016 ORDER arrangement was based on a solemn promise by all advocates that they would not resort to filing leave notes, leaving us without effective representation from either side. Despite this, in the past leave notes were filed and were frowned upon by us. Today, once more a situation has been created by which in more than 50 per cent of the matters on board, we are left with no assistance from the revenue.
3. This matter is therefore reposted on 30.8.2016, on which day if it is not convenient to the revenue advocate to appear and argue the cases before us, alternative arrangement may be made, failing which we will proceed ex-parte.
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