NIFTY VINCOM PVT. LTD. ,KOLKATA vs. ITO, WARD 6(3), , KOLKATA

Assessment Year: 2012-2013 Nifty Vincom Pvt. Limited Faceless Appeal Centre (NFAC), Delhi dated 24.02.2023 passed for A.Y. 2012-13.

At the very outset, ld. Counsel for the assessee has filed an affidavit of one Shri Rakesh Kumar Daga, Director of the assessee-company pleading therein that on the last date of hearing fixed before the ld. 1st Appellate Authority, the assessee has applied for an adjournment and prayed that hearing he adjourned upto 25th February, 2023. This application was made on 15th February, 2023. According to the assessee, that it only sought a time of 10 days from the ld. CIT(Appeals), but ld. 1st Appellate Authority has decided the appeal on 24th February, 2023 without the assistance of the material ought to be supplied by the assessee. He prayed that proper opportunity of hearing was not granted to the assessee. Therefore, the impugned order be set aside and the matter be restored to the file of ld. CIT(Appeals).

With the assistance of ld. Representatives, we have gone through the record carefully. It emerges out that the ld. 1st Appellate Authority has dismissed the appeal on account of non- prosecution. In the concluding paragraph, ld. CIT(Appeals) has observed that there was no compliance either by the assessee- company or by the subscriber companies. This procedure is not in consonance with sub-section (6) of section 250 of the Income Tax Act, whereby ld. 1st Appellate Authority is required to determine the points in dispute and thereafter record the reasons