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IN THE HIGH COURT OF ORISSA AT CUTTACK
W.P.(C) No.8781 of 2026
Buddhimanta Sahoo …. Petitioner Represented by Adv.– Mr. A.C. Swain, Advocate Mr. S.A. Swain, Advocate
-Versus- Union of India and others …. Opposite Parties Represented by Adv.– Mr. Satyanarayan Pattanaik, Central Government Counsel
CORAM:
HON’ BLE THE CHIEF JUSTICE AND HON’BLE MR. JUSTICE MURAHARI SRI RAMAN
Order No.
ORDER 06.04.2026
01.
1.
Learned counsel appears on behalf of the petitioner and submits, under challenge is show cause notice dated 6th November, 2024 followed by order dated 19th December, 2024 cancelling his client’s registration under Central Goods and Services Tax Act,
2017. He submits, his client is ready and willing to pay the tax, interest, late fee, penalty and any other sum required to be paid for the return form of his client to be accepted by the Department. He relies on order dated 16th November, 2022 of coordinate
Bench in W.P.(C) No.30374 of 2022 (M/s. Mohanty Enterprises v. The Commissioner, CT & GST, Odisha, Cuttack and others). He submits, his client’s claim to relief including prayer for condonation of delay is covered by said order.
2. We reproduce below paragraph-2 from said order in M/s. Mohanty Enterprises (supra).
"2. In that view of the matter, the delay in Petitioner’s invoking the proviso to Rule 23 of the Odisha Goods and Services Tax Rules (OGST Rules) is condoned and it is directed that subject to the Petitioner depositing all the taxes, interest, late fee, penalty etc., due and complying with other formalities, the Petitioner’s application for revocation will be considered in accordance with law."
Likewise direction is made in this writ petition. Petitioner gets the relief in the interest of revenue.
3. The writ petition is disposed of.
(Harish Tandon) Chief Justice
(M.S. Raman) Judge
S.K. Guin/PA