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Fresh Panel Appointed to Handle GST Litigation at Various Courts
Government of India
Ministry of Finance
Department of Revenue
(Central Board of Indirect Taxes & Customs)
Legal Cell
Order
The President of India is pleased to appoint a fresh panel of Sr./Jr. Standing Counsels of CBIC to handle litigation of indirect Taxes before various High Courts (other than Delhi High Court) and other fora, in terms of Instruction F. No. 278A/43/2007- Legal dated 05.12.2007, as per following details. The engagement of these Sr./Jr. Standing Counsels is subject to the terms and conditions as laid down in the said instruction dated 05.12.2007 and instruction F. No. 278A/50/2011- Legal dated 14.09.2012.
(Feild Formations)
2. The panel is constituted initially for a period of six months and on satisfactory performance, the same shall be continued for the remaining period of two and a half years.
3. It is clarified that field formation (GST/Customs formations) may avail services of the Sr./Jr. Standing Counsels who have been appointed vide Board’s order F. No. 278A/07/2019 – Legal (Pt. III) dated 01.10.2020 ( copy available on CBIC website) for handling DRI/DGGI cases of Indirect Taxes before various High Courts and other fora.
4. These issues with the concurrence of the Ministry of Law & Justice vide their ID No. J- 12013/35/2019- Judl. dated 12.05.2020 and the Integrated Finance Unit (IFU) Dy. No. 298/IFU-EC/2020 dated 11.09.2020.
(Anish Gupta)
OSD (Legal)
Copy to:
- All Principal Cheif Commissioners/ Cheif Commissioners of CGST & CE, Customs & Customs (Prev.)
- All Principal Director Generals/ Director Generals of CGST & CE, Customs
- All Joint Secretaries/ Commissioners under CBIC
- Special Secretary, GST Council, Jeevan Bharti Building, Connaught Place, New Delhi.
- CEO, Goods, and Services Tax Network, East Wing, 4th Floor, World Mark- I, Tower ‘B’, Aerocity, New Delhi
- Judicial Section, Department of Legal Affairs, M/o Law & Justice (Ref. their ID No. J-12013/55/2019- Judl. dated 25.06.2020)
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