Service Tax - Validity of adjudication of SCN after much delay - grant of...

Service Tax

Validity of adjudication of SCN after much delay - grant of centralized service tax registration - even after the Petitioner informed of the same on 8 May 2013, without any satisfactory explanation for this delay, adjudication of the Show Cause cum Demand Notice No.59 of 2009 dated 12 October 2009, which ought to have been culminated within a reasonable time has not been done and adjudicating the same now after an inordinate and unreasonable lapse of time would be detrimental and cause severe prejudice to the Petitioner. - SCN dated 12 October 2009 cannot be carried forward after such an inordinate delay - HC

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