bgp IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.9 OF 1966 R.S.Rekhchand Gopaldas Spg. & Wvg.Mills (P) Ltd. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.40 OF 1971 Shri Manoranjan Nandlal Amersey. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.118 OF 1975 Dr.N.P.Tolani. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.138 OF 1976 Mrs.Pravasini Ashok Sathe. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.140 OF 1976 Mrs.Layla Patwardhan. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.177 OF 1976 Shri H.N.J.Dady. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.221 OF 1977 Smt.Shobha P. Hade. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.236 OF 1977 Shri Pranay Parashuram Patwardhan. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.319 OF 1978 Smt.Shukla Seth. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.526 OF 1981 Dr.C.R.Das. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.813 OF 1981 Smt.Yashodhara Raje Bhansali. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.856 OF 1981 Rajmata V.R.Scindia. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.872 OF 1981 Smt.Yeshodhara Raje Bhansali. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.882 OF 1981 Rajmata V.R.Scindia. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.874 OF 1982 Vasundhara Devi of Dholpur. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1044 OF 1982 Kunti Trust. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.127 OF 1984 Smt.Vimlabai Bhalchandra Garware. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.134 OF 1984 Bhalchandra Digambar Garware. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.234 OF 1984 Braham Vasudevan. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.538 OF 1984 H.D.Vasudeva. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.603 OF 1984 Anant Singhania. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.633 OF 1984 Smt.Sushma Ashok Garware. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.71 OF 1985 M/s.Raja Oil Mills (HUF). ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO. 247 OF 1985 Shri Jaideep C. Garware. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.390 OF 1985 Mr.H.D.Vasudeva. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.138 OF 1986 Shri S.B.Garware. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.191 OF 1986 Smt.Vimalabai Bhalchandra Garware. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.216 OF 1986 Shri Chandrakant B. Garware. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.257 OF 1986 Kishore Kumar Ganguly ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.119 OF 1991 Shri Rishi Kapoor. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.131 OF 1991 Vijay & Raj Family Trust. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.246 OF 1991 Mrs. Jai B. Godrej. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.319 OF 1991 Mrs.Radhika D. Pandya. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.338 OF 1991 Seth Niheer B. Mafatlal. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.421 OF 1991 Shri Brijratan S. Mohatta. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.462 OF 1991 Shri A.S.Dani (HUG) and others. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.13 OF 1992 Miss Shalini H. Mafatlal. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.147 OF 1992 Shri Amit C. Choksey Trust. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.161 OF 1992 Miheer H. Mafatlal. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.17 OF 1994 Smt. Veenaben A. Vakil. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.255 OF 1994 Mrs.Radhika D. Pandya. ... Appellant. AND WEALTH TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.378 OF 1994 Shardaben B. Mafatlal. ... Appellant. V/s. Commissioner of Wealth Tax. ... Respondents. CORAM :- V.C.DAGA & J.P.DEVADHAR,JJ. DATE : 8TH SEPTEMBER, 2009 P.C. : 1. All these matters were called out since the matters were pending in this Court right from the years 1966 to 1994. Almost more than 30 to 40 years have passed in some of the matters, whereas in some of the matters more than 15 years have passed. No steps have been taken by the assessees 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.)