Madras HC discharges
assessee-individual from the prosecution launched u/s. 276C(2) for non-payment
of determined tax; Notes that since the assessee was agitating his case before
various fora [CIT(A) / ITAT], he did not pay the income-tax demand raised of
Rs. 14.84 lakh and thereby prosecution was launched against him, however upon
being successful in appeal, the demand itself was reduced substantially; HC
remarks that, “the very edifice on which the prosecution was launched against
the accused, has crumbled like a pack of cards,”, holds that, “it cannot be
stated that the accused was willfully evading the payment of tax.”; Rejects
Revenue’s stand that assessee cannot be discharged from the prosecution as tax
was due from him when the prosecution was launched, also remarks that, “There
was no supine indifference on the part of the accused in not paying the
demanded tax, but, on the contrary, he had agitated before various fora and
….”; HC opines that there was no necessity for the IT Dept. to have launched
the prosecution hurriedly, “since the law of limitation u/s. 468 Cr.P.C. for
criminal prosecution has been excluded by the Economic Offences
(Inapplicability of Limitation) Act, 1974.”:HC
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