ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT · SOURCE-REVIEWED PROCEDURAL ORDER
Commissioner of Income Tax and Another v. Spice Mobility Ltd.
Income Tax Appeal Defective No. 40 of 2019 ·
Supplied court order; no reported citation stated
Delay condoned and defect removed, followed by dismissal of Revenue appeal on the historical monetary-limit ground.
Division Bench · Bharati Sapru · Rohit Ranjan Agarwal
1. Facts of the case
Revenue brought Income Tax Appeal Defective No. 40 of 2019 against Spice Mobility Ltd. The Court accepted sufficient cause for delay and recorded removal of the defect. Assessee counsel stated that the tax effect was below the monetary limit; no amount or assessment year is given.
2. Discussion by the Hon’ble Court
The Court first condoned delay and recorded that the defect was removed, then addressed maintainability under Circular No. 17/2019 dated 8 August 2019 and the CBDT communication dated 20 August 2019. It did not adjudicate the substantive tax grounds.
3. Judicial decision
Income Tax Appeal Defective No. 40 of 2019 was dismissed as not maintainable on the recorded monetary-limit ground, after condonation of delay and removal of the defect.
4. Outcome / in whose favour
The assessee obtained procedural dismissal of Revenue’s appeal. Revenue’s successful delay request did not become success on the tax merits.
5. AKHB REVIEW POINT
Distinguish delay condonation and defect removal from the appeal’s eventual dismissal. The order supplies no tax-effect calculation, general ruling on the underlying assessment or current monetary threshold; check applicable exceptions and later proceedings separately.
Source and verification
Complete supplied one-page order read and visually inspected. Actual individual Drive original SHA-256 independently verified; complete text compared with the preserved review packet. AY, PAN and a tax-effect computation are not stated. Subsequent 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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