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Commissioner Of Income-tax & Others v. Santosh Debi Chamaria

Commissioner Of Income-tax & Others v. Santosh Debi Chamaria

(High Court Of Judicature At Calcutta)

Appeal No. 132 Of 1970 | 08-11-1973

Sakar Prsad Mitra, CJ.

1. In this appeal the appellant has not complied with the undertakings given to this Court at the time of obtaining leave to file the Memorandum of Appeal The order appealed against was passed by Mr. Justice T.K. Basu on the 13th March, 1970. An application was made for a certified copy of the order of Mr. Justice T.K. Basu on the 16th March, 1970. The Memorandum of appeal was filed on 22nd May, 1970 without the certified copy of the order but on three undertakings, viz. (1) the applicants shall file the certified copy of the order within the period of limitation. (2) the applicants shall cause the order passed on 22nd May, 1970 to be drawn up and included in the paper book to be filed and (3) the applicant shall cause a list of dates relevant to the question of limitation to be prepared and shall include the same in the paper book. An interim order was also obtained on 2nd May, 1970.

2. Then, on the 11th June, 1970 the Court of Appeal made an order for continuation of the interim order passed on 22nd May, 1970 subject to modifications and the filing of the paper book within one month from the said date. It was also ordered that in the paper book the appellant shall include all papers used in the trial Court. It is possible that the appellant obtained further extensions of time to file the paper book, which was, in fact, filed on the 16th September, 1970. The respondent does not contend before us that the paper book was not filed within time. But this paper book suffers from fatal infirmities. In the paper book the certified copy of the order appealed against, the order dated 22nd May, 1970 permitting the filing of the Memorandum of Appeal without the certified copy and the list of dates were not included. It is further alleged that all the papers that were used in the trial Court have not been included in the paper book. But we do not propose for the purpose of disposing of this matter to go into this allegation.

3. The position, therefore, is that the appellant has failed to carry out the orders of this Court for inclusion in the paper book the certified copy of the order appealed against, the order of the 22nd May, 1970 and also the list of dates. The paper book can not, in the circumstances, be accepted by this Court and there is no competent space before this Court.

4. Our attention is being drawn to the relevant minutes of the Division Bench consisting of Mr. Justice B.C. Mitra and Mr. Justice Janah on the 25th May, 1973. It appears that on this day leave was obtained to file supplementary paper book printed or cyclostyled by the following Wednesday i.e. 30th May, 1973. The minutes show that this order was obtained with the consent of the respondent. The respondents Solicitor states before m that he did not give this consent and submits that this disputed question may be tried on evidence. It is, however, unnecessary for us to go into this matter also because assuming that an order was obtained with consent for filing of a supplementary paper book on the 25th May, 1973 no supplementary paper book was filed on or before the 30th May, 1973.

5. In the circumstances aforesaid, following the judgment of the Division Bench of this Court in Appeal No. 36 of 1959, (Ramgopal Lachminarain v. Bansidhar Ghanshvamdas), we dismiss this appeal with costs.

Sabyasachi Mukharji, J.

I agree.

Appeal dismissed.

Advocate List
  • For the Appearing Parties Balai Lal Pal, R.N. Bajoria, Advocates.
Bench
  • HON'BLE CHIEF JUSTICE MR. SANKAR PRASAD MITRA
  • HON'BLE MR. JUSTICE SABYASACHI MUKHERJI
Eq Citations
  • AIR 1974 CAL 295
  • LQ/CalHC/1973/286
Head Note

A. Constitution of India — Arts. 134 and 136 — Appeal — Memorandum of appeal — Filing of — Leave to file — Appellant not complying with undertakings given to Supreme Court at the time of obtaining leave to file the Memorandum of Appeal — Appeal dismissed with costs