Bijay Kumar Swain vs. State Of Odisha
Facts
The petitioner, Bijay Kumar Swain, filed a writ petition before the High Court of Orissa at Cuttack. The petition is connected to and has common issues with W.P.(C) No.14924 of 2020. The Court noted that due to continuing COVID-19 restrictions, parties could use printouts of the order from the High Court's website as a substitute for certified copies, subject to attestation by the advocate. The specific order or action under challenge, the tax period(s), the authority that passed it, and the amount in dispute are not detailed in this excerpt. The procedural history is limited to the filing of the writ petition and its consolidation with another related matter.
Held
The High Court held that the issues in W.P.(C) No.11921 of 2020 are connected and common to W.P.(C) No.14924 of 2020. Consequently, the Court decided to dispose of the present writ petition in terms of the judgment rendered on 7th June 2021 in W.P.(C) No.14924 of 2020. The reasoning is based on the identified commonality of issues, implying that the legal principles and findings in the earlier judgment are applicable here. The operative direction is to dispose of the petition in terms of the aforementioned judgment. No specific GST provisions were discussed in this excerpt, and the substantive issues of the petitioner remain undecided in this specific order, as they are subsumed by the disposition based on the connected case.
Key Issues
1. Whether the issues raised in W.P.(C) No.11921 of 2020 are connected to and common with W.P.(C) No.14924 of 2020, thus warranting disposal in terms of the judgment in the latter case. The petitioner, through Mr. P.C. Nayak, Advocate, presumably raised certain issues concerning GST. The State of Odisha and others, represented by Mr. P.K. Muduli, AGA, and Mr. Sunil Mishra, ASC, CT & GST, are the opposite parties. The judgment does not explicitly state the arguments made by either side regarding the substantive GST issues, focusing instead on the procedural aspect of disposing of the petition based on a connected matter. The core legal question revolves around the applicability of the decision in W.P.(C) No.14924 of 2020 to the present case.
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ORDER Order No. 7th June, 2021
Since the issues here are connected and common to W.P.(C) No.14924 of 2020, the writ petition is disposed of in terms of the judgment dated 7th June, 2021 rendered in W.P.(C) No.14924 of 2020. As the restrictions due to resurgence of COVID-19 situation are continuing, learned counsel for the parties may utilize a printout of the order available in the High Court’s website, at par with certified copy, subject to attestation by the concerned advocate, in the manner prescribed vide Court’s Notice No.4587, dated 25th March, 2020 as modified by Court’s Notice No.4798, dated 15th April, 2021. (B.P.Routray)
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