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2021 (11) TMI 1063 - DELHI HIGH COURTProhibition Benami Property Transactions - change of the Adjudicating Authority - Grievance raised by the petitioners is that vide the impugned order, the respondent no.1 has transferred more than 80 officers in the grade of Commissioner of Income Tax/Directors of Income Tax with immediate effect, including officers who were serving as Members, Adjudicating Authority at New Delhi, for the Prohibition Benami Property Transactions Act, 1988 without taking into consideration the fact that those officers had reserved judgment in a number of cases and therefore while appropriate directions ought to have been passed to deal with this aspect - HELD THAT:- Issue notice. Ms. Nidhi Raman, CGSC accepts notice. She prays for, and is granted, two weeks’ time to obtain instructions and file a reply, explaining the stand of the respondent as also how this issue can be resolved. In its reply, the respondent will also give a comprehensive list of the matters in which judgment has been reserved by the then incumbent officers holding the post of Member, Adjudicating Authority under the Prohibition Benami Property Transactions Act, 1988. Response thereto, if any, be filed before the next date. In case, before the next date, the matters are once again listed for arguments before the Adjudicating Authority, it will be open for the petitioners to make a request to the said Authority for adjourning the matter to await the outcome of the present petition, which request, if made, will be considered favourably by the Adjudicating Authority. List on 22.12.2021.
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