ALLAHABAD HIGH COURT · SOURCE-REVIEWED PROCEDURAL ORDER

Union of India through Income Tax Commissioner v. Sahara India Firm and others

Application U/S 482 No. 92 of 2013 ·
2023:AHC-LKO:60678

The application was dismissed as infructuous and any interim order stood vacated. The applicant could apply for recall within eight weeks if the cause of action still survived. The office was directed to communicate the order to the trial court forthwith.

Single Judge · Shree Prakash Singh

1. Facts of the case

No one appeared for the applicant; the State’s Additional Government Advocate was present. The Court considered that the matter seemed to have become infructuous through passage of time.

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2. Discussion by the Hon’ble Court

The Court dismissed the application while preserving a limited opportunity to seek recall if the cause of action survived.

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3. Judicial decision

The application was dismissed as infructuous and any interim order stood vacated. The applicant could apply for recall within eight weeks if the cause of action still survived. The office was directed to communicate the order to the trial court forthwith.

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4. Outcome / in whose favour

The application ended, subject to the stated opportunity to seek recall; restoration was not automatic.

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5. AKHB REVIEW POINT

Preserve the eight-week recall window and the conditional survival of the cause of action. Four supplied orders bear the same printed neutral citation, but applications 91, 92, 93 and 94 of 2013 have separate dockets and remain distinct; no correction of that citation is invented.

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Source and verification

Complete supplied 1-page original read and visually inspected; original PDF bytes verified by SHA-256. Only source-identified provisions and assessment years are recorded. No PAN is stated. Subsequent treatment and current law have not been cleared.

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Only source-identified provisions are recorded. No current monetary threshold, current statutory equivalence or 2025 Act applicability is inferred.

Source checked 2026-10-20. Subsequent proceedings and current precedential treatment have not been comprehensively verified.

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