ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT · SOURCE-REVIEWED PROCEDURAL ORDER

Shyam Behari Agarwal v. Commissioner of Income Tax

Income Tax Appeal No. 409 of 2007 ·
Supplied court order; no reported citation stated

Appeal dismissed as infructuous by efflux of time.

Division Bench · Bharati Sapru · Rohit Ranjan Agarwal

1. Facts of the case

The brief order states that the matter had become infructuous by efflux of time. It gives no assessment year, tax issue, amount or intervening event.

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2. Discussion by the Hon’ble Court

The Court recorded that procedural circumstance and supplied no reasoning on the underlying tax merits.

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3. Judicial decision

The appeal was dismissed as having become infructuous.

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4. Outcome / in whose favour

The taxpayer’s appeal ended procedurally without a stated merits adjudication.

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5. AKHB REVIEW POINT

Do not treat efflux of time as proof of payment, settlement or extinguished liability. Obtain the underlying orders before attributing a substantive consequence.

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Source and verification

Complete one-page supplied order read and visually inspected. Individual Drive original SHA-256 independently verified; complete text matches the preserved source-review packet. AY and PAN are not stated. Later treatment and current law are not cleared.

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Only provisions expressly identified in this order are recorded. No substantive tax merits or current statutory equivalence is inferred.

Source checked 2026-10-19. Later proceedings, compliance and current precedential treatment have not been comprehensively verified.

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