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2025(02)LCX0129

Telangana High Court

Bigleap Technologies and Solutions Private Limited

Unsigned show-cause notices and final orders under GST even when uploaded online are invalid because the signature column in the prescribed forms constitutes a mandatory statutory requirement for authenticity.
2025(02)LCX0049

Gauhati High Court

Bitu Paul

Summary of SCN is held to be not a substitute of a SCN, contemplated by the provisions of Section 73[1] to set the proceeding in motion.
2021(10)LCX0032

Jharkhand High Court

Nkas Services Private Limited

Summary Notice DRC-01 u/r 142(1) of the CGST Rules is not a substitute for proper SCN to be issued u/s 74 of CGST Act without detailing allegations attracting ingredients of provisions of Acts.
2024(10)LCX0143

Gauhati High Court

Udit Tibrewal

Non-issuance of a proper and prior SCN, as contemplated u/s 73(1) of GST Act and issuance of only Summary of SCN and Attachment to Determination of Tax cannot be said to be in compliance with Section 73(1) read with rule 142(1), a Summary of SCN is held to be not a substitute of a SCN.
2023(12)LCX0335

Jharkhand High Court

Alok Steel Industries Private Limited

Summary of the Show Cause Notice does not fulfill the ingredients of a proper show cause notice thereby amounts to violation of Principle of natural Justice.