Commissioner Of Income Tax, Calcutta vs Sugauli Sugar Works (P) Ltd on 4 February, 1999
But though the right possesses this permanent character,
the remedies arising from its violation are withdrawn
after a certain lapse of time; interest reipublicae ut si finis
litium. The remedies are barred, though the right is not
extinguished.‖
And if the law requires that a debtor should get a
discharge before he can be compelled to pay, that
requirement is not satisfied if he is merely told that
requirement is the normal course he is not likely to be
exposed to action by the creditor.‖(underlining ours)
This was also the view taken by the Supreme Court in CIT v. Sugauli
Sugar Works (P) Ltd. (supra).