Puneet Pannu v. Income Tax Officer Ward 2(1) Chandigarh and Others
Case brief
What is this about?
CWP-18614-2025 (O&M), High Court of Punjab and Haryana at Chandigarh, decided 09.07.2025. Puneet Pannu (petitioner; Kartik Bansal, Adv.) versus Income Tax Officer, Ward 2(1), Chandigarh and others (Yogesh Putney, Senior Standing Counsel, with Vaibhav Gupta and Vidul Kapoor, Jr. Standing Counsels). Notice dated 05.04.2024 under Section 148 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 issued by Jurisdictional Assessing Officer quashed; challenge founded on Ministry of Finance notification dated 29.03.2022 mandating faceless assessment; followed coordinate-Bench rulings in Jatinder Singh Bhangu (CWP-15745-2024, dt. 19.07.2024) and Jasjit Singh (CWP-21509-2023, dt. 29.07.2024); petition allowed with liberty to respondents to proceed in accordance with law.
What did the court decide?
Notice dated 05.04.2024 (Annexure P-1) quashed; liberty to the respondents to proceed against the petitioner in accordance with law.