Ombhole Transport And Construction, ... vs Assessee on 1 July, 2012
In the case of CIT vs. Scientific Chemicals (2005) 198 CTR 665 (Guj),
Hon'ble Gujarat High Court has held that "when the explanation tendered
by the assessee is ignored or omitted from the zone of consideration before
the order is made, it would definitely violate the principles of natural justice.
The order would be vitiated by exercise of arbitrariness in decision-making
process and the discretion cannot be stated to have been exercised
judicially." It further held that "when an authority is vested with discretionary
powers and omits to take into consideration, the explanation tendered
which has admittedly been filed in response to show cause notice, the
order would suffer from the vice of non-application of mind when the order
records that no explanation is tendered."