TMI Blog2018 (1) TMI 393X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... ld. AR took up ground No. 3 of cross objectons, which relates to non-issue of notice u/s. 143(2) of the IT Act. The ld. AR invited our attention to the order of assessment and submitted that nowhere in the assessment order, the Assessing Officer mentioned about the issuance of notice u/s. 143(2) of the Act. Further inviting our attention to the ld. CIT(A) s order, the ld. AR submitted that when this ground was raised before the ld. CIT(A), the ld. CIT(A) has held that non-issue of notice u/s. 143(2) by itself cannot be said to vitiate the assessment proceedings. It was submitted that from the findings of the ld. Assessing Officer and the ld. CIT(A), it becomes amply clear that no notice u/s. 143(2) was issued to the assessee and therefore, the assessment order is liable to be quashed. Reliance in this respect was placed on a number of case laws mentioned in paper book pages A to M, which are as under : (i). ACIT Anr. Vs. Hotel Blue Moon, 321 ITR 362(SC) (ii). Directorate of Income Tax vs. VR Educational Trust, 2013(12) TMI 745 (Delhi High Court) (iii). Alpine Electronics Asia Pvt. Ltd. Vs. DGIT, 341 ITR 247 (Del.) (iv). Dalmia (R) vs. CIT, 236 ITR 480 (SC) ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... otice under Section 143(2) of the Act pursuant to the notice under Section 148 of the Act before 30 September 2013, the last date by which the notice ought to have been issued. 14. The law on this point is fairly well settled in the decisions in ACIT v. Hotel Blue Moon 12010] 321 ITR 362 (SC) reiterated in CIT v. Madhya Bharat Energy Corporation [2011] 337 ITR 389 (Del) and Principal Commissioner of Income tax v. Jai Shiv Shankar Traders (P.) Ltd. [2016]383 ITR 448 (Del). In the last mentioned judgment, this Court held that the delay in issuing a notice under Section 143(2) of the Act would be fatal to the re-assessment proceedings. 15. For the aforementioned reasons, it is held that as far as the second ground is concerned, the Petitioner should succeed. In that view of the matter, the Court does not consider it necessary to examine the first ground of challenge. The impugned notice dated 22 February, 2013 issued to the Petitioner under Section 148 of the Act as well as the consequential order dated 20th January, 2014 disposing of its objections as well as the reassessment proceedings pursuant thereto are hereby quashed. Similar finding has been made by various c ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... s Court reviewed its main judgment in the matter rendered on 11th July 2011 on the ground that the said appeal had not been admitted on the question concerning the mandatory compliance with the requirement of issuance of notice under Section 143(2) of the Act. In its review order, this Court noted that at the time of admission of the appeal on 17th February, 2011 after noticing that in the said case that no notice under Section 143(2) had ever been issued, the Court held that no question of law arose on that aspect. The upshot of the above discussion is that the decision of this Court in CIT v. Madhya Bharat Energy Corporation (supra) is not of any assistance to the Revenue as far as the issue in the present case is concerned. 10. Ms Aggarwal nevertheless urged that notwithstanding the above position, the decision of this Court in CIT v. Vision Inc. (2012) 73 DTR 201 (Del) would apply. The said judgment held that since on the facts of that case the Assessee had been properly served with the notice under Section 143(2) of the Act within the statutory time limit prescribed under the proviso thereto, the ITAT should not have set aside the re-assessment in toto. Ms Aggarwal place ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... f such claim. In view of the above, after receipt of return in response to notice under Section 148, it shall be mandatory for the AO to serve a notice under sub-Section 2 of Section 143 assigning reason therein. In absence of any notice issued under sub-Section 2 of Section 143 after receipt of fresh return submitted by the Assessee in response to notice under Section, the entire procedure adopted for escaped assessment, shall not be valid. 15. In a subsequent judgment in CIT v. Salarpur Cold Storage (P.) Ltd. (2014) 50 Taxmann.com 105 (All) it was held as under: 10. Section 292 BB of the Act was inserted by the Finance Act, 2008 with effect from 1 April 2008. Section 292 BB of the Act provides a deeming fiction. The deeming fiction is to the effect that once the assessee has appeared in any proceeding or cooperated in any enquiry relating to an assessment or reassessment, it shall be deemed that any notice under the provisions of the Act, which is required to be served on the assessee, has been duly served upon him in time in accordance with the provisions of the Act. The assessee is precluded from taking any objection in any proceeding or enquiry that the notice was (i) ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... on placing the objection the Assessee had waived the notice for further processing of the reassessment proceedings. The fact that on the notice issued u/s 143(2) of the Act, the assessee had placed its objection and reiterated its earlier return filed as one filed in response to the notice issued u/s 148 of the Act and the Officer had also noted that the same would be considered for completing of assessment, would show that the AO has the duty of issuing the notice under Section 143(3) to lead on to the passing of the assessment. In the circumstances, with no notice issued u/s 143(3) and there being no waiver, there is no justifiable ground to accept the view of the Tribunal that there was a waiver of right of notice to be issued u/s 143(2) of the Act. 18. As already noticed, the decision of this Court in CIT v. Vision Inc. proceeded on a different set of facts. In that case, there was a clear finding of the Court that service of the notice had been effected on the Assessee under Section 143 (2) of the Act. As already further noticed, the legal position regarding Section 292BB has already been made explicit in the aforementioned decisions of the Allahabad High Court. That p ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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