ITAT reprimands officers for delaying tactics during pandemic & rejects adjournment request

DCIT Vs Saroj Kumar Poddar (ITAT Kolkata) Kolkata bench first  of its kind of Interim order on the subject of endless adjournments by revenue on pretext of covid 19  and resultant pains to tax payer languishing for justice held remarkably as follows:- The Revenue is also raising strong objections, without any valid ground, for the hearing of the appeal by the Bench on the preliminary issues of maintainability of the appeal. These objections are hereby rejected. This Bench has been highly accommodative and has granted a number of adjournments to the Department till date despite strong and val...