{"id":38786,"date":"2024-02-01T14:46:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-01T09:16:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/acit-initiating-officer-v-neopride-pharmaceuticals-ltd-2023454-itr-580-294-taxman-262-sc-editorial-neopride-pharmaceuticals-ltd-v-adjudicating-authority-2023-454-itr-571-152-taxmann-co\/"},"modified":"2024-02-01T14:46:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T09:16:59","slug":"acit-initiating-officer-v-neopride-pharmaceuticals-ltd-2023454-itr-580-294-taxman-262-sc-editorial-neopride-pharmaceuticals-ltd-v-adjudicating-authority-2023-454-itr-571-152-taxmann-co","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/acit-initiating-officer-v-neopride-pharmaceuticals-ltd-2023454-itr-580-294-taxman-262-sc-editorial-neopride-pharmaceuticals-ltd-v-adjudicating-authority-2023-454-itr-571-152-taxmann-co\/","title":{"rendered":"ACIT (Initiating Officer) v. Neopride Pharmaceuticals Ltd. (2023)454 ITR 580\/ 294 Taxman 262 (SC) Editorial : Neopride Pharmaceuticals Ltd v. Adjudicating Authority (2023) 454 ITR 571 \/ 152 taxmann.com 343 (Telengana)(HC), affirmed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Petitioners challenged orders of provisional attachment and confiscation of properties. Petitioners claimed that properties were acquired prior to 25-10-2016 or 1-11-2016 and such transaction could not be classified as benami retrospectively by applying Benami Transactions (Prohibition) Amendment Act, 2016. \u00a0High Court \u00a0relying on the Supreme Court in UOI v. Ganpati Dealcom (P.) Ltd.\u00a0[2022]289\u00a0Taxman 177\/447 ITR 108\/2022 SCC\u00a0Online SC 1064 held that section 3 read with sections 2(<em>a<\/em>) and 5 of unamended 1988 Act which dealt with criminal proceedings were overly broad, disproportionately harsh and operate without adequate safeguards in place and thus were unconstitutional from their inception, which would mean that 2016 amendments were, in effect, creating new provisions and new offences, thus Amendment Act, 2016 was not merely procedural but prescribes substantive provisions. High Court quashed the \u00a0\u00a0show cause notices, provisional attachment orders and adjudicating orders passed. SLP \u00a0of Revenue is dismissed. (AY. 2015-16)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S. 24(1) : Benami transactions-Transactions prior to amendment in 2016-Notices, orders for provisional attachment and adjudicating orders are set aside-Oder of High Court affirmed. [S. 4(a)(i) 26(3)  Art. 136]  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38786","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-income-tax-act"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9S2Rw-a5A","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38786","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=38786"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38786\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38787,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38786\/revisions\/38787"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38786"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38786"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38786"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}