IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION INCOME TAX REFERENCE (LDG.) NOS. CASE NO. APPLICANT NAME RESPONDENT NAME 457/1980 S.R.Kantabet (Deceased) Commissioner of Estate Duty, Poona 612/1980 International Cotton Corpn.Pvt.Ltd. C.I.T., Bombay 619/1980 M/s.B.Shantilal and Co. C.I.T., Bombay 695/1980 Asbestos Pkg. And Mfg. Co.P.Ltd. C.I.T., Bombay 731/1980 M/s.K.S.B. Pumps Ltd. C.I.T., Bombay 742/1980 Hindustan Petrtoleum Corpn.Ltd. C.I.T., Bombay 745/1980 M/s.Tulsidas Tanilram (India) C.I.T., Bombay 59/1983 Panzarakan Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana Ltd. C.I.T., Nasik 614/1983 C.I.T., Pune Shri K.Srinivasan 5/1984 C.I.T., Pune K.Srinivasan 452/1989 Dr.G.M.Jadhav, Kolhapur C.I.T., Kolhapur 170/1990 Humphreya & Glasgow Consultants P.Ltd. C.I.T., Bombay None for the applicant None for the respondent. CORAM : V.C.DAGA AND J.P.DEVADHAR, JJ. DATED : 15th September 2009. P.C. : All these matters were called out since the matters were pending in this Court right from the year 1980 to 1984 and some appeal are pending since 1989 and 1990. Almost more than 25 to 29 years have passed. No steps have been taken by the assessees/ revenue at whose instance the statements of case in their respective cases have been forwarded by the Tribunal. 2. This Court had issued notices to the parties to the references. They were called upon to take steps approaching the office of the Prothonotary and Senior Master of this Court and to take steps as required under section 657 of the Bombay High Court (Original Side) Rules, 1980 (“Rules for short) so as to place the references on board for final disposal since the provision of rule 657 required the person at whose instance reference has been made to take necessary steps to supply paper book. In the event of noncompliance of rule 659, the matters were required to be placed on Board for orders. Order was required to be passed in exercise of powers under rule 660 of the Rules. That is how all these matters are placed on board for orders. 3. Since no steps have been taken by the assessees in either of the matters as required under rules 657 and 658 of the Rules, we have no option but to return all these references unanswered in exercise of powers under rule 659 of the Rules. 4. In the result, all these references are returned unanswered and disposed of accordingly. No order as to costs. (J.P.DEVADHAR, J.) (V.C.DAGA J.)