New Delhi [India]: The Delhi High Court has quashed seven orders passed by the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal (ITAT) in a batch of cross-appeals involving Patanjali Ayurved Ltd., terming the manner in which the Tribunal dealt with the matters a "shocking picture" of procedural lapses and opaqueness.
A bench of Justice Dinesh Mehta and Justice Rajneesh Kumar Gupta said the Tribunal appeared to have acted with "undue haste" and "recklessness" while passing and signing the orders, and held that such negligence by an appellate authority entrusted with the highest level of fact-finding "cannot be countenanced."
