{"id":359,"date":"2023-09-08T01:35:22","date_gmt":"2023-09-07T20:05:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterslice.com\/research\/?p=359"},"modified":"2023-09-08T01:35:24","modified_gmt":"2023-09-07T20:05:24","slug":"placing-cash-credit-accounts-under-provisional-attachment-not-permitted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterslice.com\/research\/high-court\/gujarat\/placing-cash-credit-accounts-under-provisional-attachment-not-permitted\/","title":{"rendered":"Placing cash credit accounts under provisional attachment, not permitted"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>While hearing a petition challenging the vires of attachment placed over the Assessee\u2019s bank account in a bid to recover tax dues, the <strong>High Court of Gujarat<\/strong> re-iterated the position taken in a series of judgments, wherein the practice of the Department of placing cash credit accounts under provisional attachments, was strongly deprecated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With these observations, the Division Bench of <strong>Justice Biren Vaishnav<\/strong> &amp; <strong>Justice Devan M Desai<\/strong> directed that notice be issued to the parties concerned and deferred the hearing of the matter, with temporary relief being given to the Petitioner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Petitioner-Assessee was represented by <strong>Mr. Ashutosh Dave, Advocate<\/strong>, whereas the Respondent-Department was represented by <strong>Mr. Jyotindrasinh J Vala, Advocate<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The present petition had been filed to challenge communication dated 10.7.2023 in form DRC-22 whereby the Current Account of the Petitioner held with Bank of Baroda had been provisionally attached.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On hearing the contentions of both the parties, the Bench relied on the judgment of this Court in <em>Manish Scrap Traders v. 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State of Gujarat<\/em> and re-iterated the legal position prescribing <a>attachment of cash credit accounts in a bid to recover taxes<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>With these observations, the Bench directed that notice be issued to the parties concerned and allowed ad interim relief till further proceedings took place.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Cause Title: M\/s Anjani Cotton Industries Vs Principal Commissioner of Central Goods and Service Tax [Special Civil Application No 13291 of 2023 \/ 2023-Enterslice-13-HC-Guj-GST] \u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/enterslice.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Anjani-Cotton-Industries-verses-Pr-Commissioner-CGST.pdf\">Click here to read\/download the order<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n<a href=\"https:\/\/enterslice.com\/research\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/Anjani-Cotton-Industries-verses-Pr-Commissioner-CGST.pdf\" class=\"pdfemb-viewer\" style=\"\" data-width=\"max\" data-height=\"max\"  data-toolbar=\"bottom\" data-toolbar-fixed=\"off\">Anjani-Cotton-Industries-verses-Pr-Commissioner-CGST<br\/><\/a>\n<p class=\"wp-block-pdfemb-pdf-embedder-viewer\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>While hearing a petition challenging the vires of attachment placed over the Assessee\u2019s bank account in a bid to recover tax dues, the High Court of Gujarat re-iterated the position taken in a series of judgments, wherein the practice of the Department of placing cash credit accounts under provisional attachments, was strongly deprecated. 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