The Director of Income Tax (Examption) Bombay. v. M/S. Plast India Foundation.
Case brief
What is this about?
Common order in a large batch of income tax references pending since 1994. The record and proceedings were untraceable and, despite adjournments and a peremptory direction of the Master, the applicants neither reconstructed them nor filed paper-books and did not appear. The court returned all the references unanswered, leaving the questions of law open.
What did the court decide?
All references returned unanswered; questions of law left open for consideration in an appropriate case; no order as to costs.