{"id":268201,"date":"2022-06-10T11:00:48","date_gmt":"2022-06-10T05:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/?p=268201"},"modified":"2022-06-10T09:37:46","modified_gmt":"2022-06-10T04:07:46","slug":"adjudication-proceedings-and-criminal-proceedings-can-be-launched-simultaneously-madras-high-court-reiterates-setting-aside-of-assessment-orders-on-technical-grounds-not-enough-to-quash-criminal-pro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scconline.com\/blog\/post\/2022\/06\/10\/adjudication-proceedings-and-criminal-proceedings-can-be-launched-simultaneously-madras-high-court-reiterates-setting-aside-of-assessment-orders-on-technical-grounds-not-enough-to-quash-criminal-pro\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjudication proceedings and criminal proceedings can be launched simultaneously; Madras High Court reiterates, setting aside of assessment orders on technical grounds not enough to quash criminal proceedings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Madras High Court<\/span><\/b><span data-contrast=\"auto\">: G. Chandrasekharan, J. declined to quash prosecution against actor SJ Suryah as the order of the Income Tax Appellate Authority, cancelling the assessment orders was not on merits.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>FACTUAL BACKGROUND:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The petitioner filed the petitions under Section 482 of the Code of Criminal Procedure (CrPC) and prayed for quashing of all further proceedings against the petitioner. The complaints were filed for violation of provisions of the Income Tax Act, 1961. The assessment order passed by the assessing officer and confirmed by the CIT (A) were set aside by the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal and the assessment orders were declared as null and void.<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>OBSERVATIONS AND DECISION:\u00a0\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Bench taking note of the judgments of the Supreme Court in <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">P. Jayappan v.. S.K.Perumal <\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"none\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/GV93ShB6\">1984 Supp SCC 437<\/a><\/span><span data-contrast=\"none\">, <\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">and <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Radheshyam Kejriwal v. State of West <\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Bengal\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scconline.com\/DocumentLink\/dcl5C691\">(2011) 3 SCC 581<\/a><\/span><i> <\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">held that pendency of re-assessment proceedings was remanding matter for adequate opportunity and that adjudication by Tribunal through adjudication proceedings would not be a bar for launching a criminal prosecution. <\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Further, it reiterated that the adjudication proceedings ending in favour of the assessee, can be taken to be in favour of assessee only if the adjudication proceedings had discussed all the issues raised in the complaint on merits and then gave its findings. An order passed on technical grounds would not be of aid to the assesee\/accused and the prosecution can continue in such a case.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">On the particular facts of the case, the High Court noted that the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal had disposed the appeals only on the ground of limitation and not on merits. Based on the decision of the Supreme Court in <\/span><i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Radheshyam Kejriwal (supra), <\/span><\/i><span data-contrast=\"auto\">the petitioner could not have prayed to quash the proceedings on the ground that the Income Tax Appellate Authority had set aside the assessment orders.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">The Bench had observed that the complaints consisted of issues that would have to be necessarily tried before a Court as the violations were liable to be prosecuted for the offences under Section 276 C (1), 276 C (2), 276 CC and 277 of the Income Tax Act, 1961. Therefore, since the exoneration in adjudication proceedings was on a technical ground and not on merit, the prosecution was allowed to be continued and the prayer of the petitioner was rejected.\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><span data-contrast=\"auto\">[<span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em>SJ Surya<\/em> v. <em>Deputy Commissioner of Income Tax<\/em>, Crl.O.P.No.29914 of 2015, decided on 26 -05-2022<\/span>]\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">Appearances:<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">For the petitioners: Sr Adv N.R.Elango\u00a0<\/span><span data-ccp-props=\"{&quot;335551550&quot;:6,&quot;335551620&quot;:6,&quot;335559739&quot;:160,&quot;335559740&quot;:259}\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span data-contrast=\"auto\">For the respondents: Mrs N. 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