Mumbai, Apr 4 (UNI) Bombay High Court imposed a cost of Rs. 25,000 on industrialist Anil Ambani for seeking an urgent hearing of his petition challenging the notice issued by the Income Tax Department in April 2022, a lawyer said here on Thursday.
A bench of Justices Mahesh S Sonak and Jitendra S Jain recently came down heavily during hearing on Ambani lawyer Gunjan Kakkad while noting that his lawyer moved praecipe or a written request for an urgent hearing to take up the matter urgently, even though the impugned notice was issued on April 12, 2022.
The bench said the facility to seek urgent circulation of the matter or hearing “cannot be invoked by creating such an artificial urgency.” “Besides, the challenge is only to show cause notice… The Petitioner has moved the Court at the fag end when the assessment is likely to be time barred by March 31, 2025. Accordingly, we dismiss this praecipe with cost of Rs.25,000/- payable to Tata Memorial Hospital,” the bench noted in its order.
The court asked Ambani to deposit the amount within two weeks time and adjourned the hearing for nex date.
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