Rajendra Madhukar Kulkarni v. Assistant Commissioner Of Income Tax And Anr

IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAYCRIMINAL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 663 OF 2022WITHCRIMINAL APPLICATION NO. 664 OF 2022 Rajendra Madhukar Kulkarni VersusAssistant Commissioner Of Income Tax And Anr. ...Applicant ...Respondents …. Adv. P.G. Sabnis a/w Kashmira Khedekar, Advocate for the Applicant.Mr. Amit Munde, SPP, Income Tax, Advocate for the Respondent.Mr. Arfan Sait, APP for the Respondent – State. PER COURT: CORAM : PRAKASH D. NAIK, J.DATE: 26[th] AUGUST, 2022. 1.The applicant is prosecuted under the provisions of IncomeTax Act. The order issuing process has been challenged by theapplicant before the Sessions Court by preferring revisionapplication. The said revision application is pending, since interimrelief is not been granted to the applicant, for limited relief theapplicant has approached this Court. 2.It is submitted that the applicant is senior citizen sufferingfrom cancer. The trial Court is insisting for his presence. 3.Learned counsel for the Respondent submitted that therevision application is pending before the Sessions Court. At themost the Sessions Court may be directed to expeditiously dispose of 1 of 2 the revision application. 4.The revision applications preferred by the applicant arepending before the Sessions Court since June- 2022 and the nextdate before the Court of Sessions for hearing revision application ison 15[th] September, 2022 and 27[th] September, 2022. The next datebefore the trial Court is on 7[th] September, 2022. 5.Learned counsel for the Respondent submitted that theapplicant was exempted from appearing before the trial Court. TheRespondents had consented for exemption atleast on five dates ofhearing. 6.The Sessions Court is directed to decide the subject revisionapplications within a period of three months from receipt of thisorder. 7.Till then the final disposal the revision application theapplicant is exempted from appearing before the trial Court in boththe proceedings. 8. Applications stand disposed of. (PRAKASH D. NAIK, J.) 2 of 2