bgp IN THE HIGH COURT OF JUDICATURE AT BOMBAY ORDINARY ORIGINAL CIVIL JURISDICTION INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.716 OF 1981 Leakoplast (I) Pvt.Ltd. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.720 OF 1981 Colfax Laboratories India Ltd. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1108 OF 1982 Carona Sahu Co. Ltd. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1169 OF 1982 The Hindustan Corporation Company Ltd. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1178 OF 1982 M/s.Wilson Engineering Works. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1179 OF 1982 Nitin V. Mahadevia. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1190 OF 1982 Selser Marketing Limited. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1191 OF 1982 Promar Sales Limited. ... Appellant. AND INCOMETAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1217 OF 1982 M/s. S.Parkash and Bros. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1218 OF 1982 Meherbai N. Sethna. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1284 OF 1982 M/s.Sterling Exports P.Ltd. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1341 OF 1982 M/s.New Chemi Industries P.Ltd. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1344 OF 1982 B.A.S.F. India Ltd. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L) NO.1347 OF 1982 Lucknow Chikan House. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.834 OF 1983 M/s.Gulabdas and Co. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1010 OF 1983 Chemco Supply Corporation. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1059 OF 1983 Amjad Khan. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1090 OF 1983 M.B.Sathe. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1104 OF 1983 M/s.Moon Light Traders. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1110 OF 1983 Urmi Co-op.Ginning and Pressing Society Ltd. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1138 OF 1983 Nanded Central Co-op. Consumers W/R Stores Ltd. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1170 OF 1983 Ralliwolf Ltd. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1212 OF 1983 H.D.Vasudeva. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1279 OF 1983 Parvatiben Makanbhai. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1345 OF 1983 M/s.Modern Mercantile Works. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1359 OF 1983 M/s.Popular Metal Works and Rolling Mills. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1373 OF 1983 M/s.Genelec Limited. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1381 OF 1983 Humphreys and Glasgow Consultants Pvt.Ltd. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1385 OF 1983 K.L.Dalal. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1401 OF 1983 M/s.Venus Engg. Works and Foundry Pvt.Ltd. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1440 OF 1983 Maharani Vijaya Raje Scindia. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1448 OF 1983 M/s.E.A.L. Soopariwala and Co. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1450 OF 1983 H.H.Madhavrao Scindia. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1460 OF 1983 Shah Construction Co. Ltd. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1469 OF 1983 M/s.Vijay Flexible Containers P.Ltd. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1491 OF 1983 Excel Industries Ltd. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1597 OF 1983 M/s.Durga Trading Co. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1600 OF 1983 Vithalnagar Co-op, Hsg. Society Ltd. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1601 OF 1983 M/s.Colaba Central Co-operative Consumers’ Wholesale and Retail Stores Ltd. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.1690 OF 1983 Herbertsons Limited. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.502 OF 1988 The Antifriction Bearing Corpn. Ltd. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.503 OF 1988 M/s.Fulford India Ltd. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.509 OF 1988 S.N. And H.N. Family Trust. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.514 OF 1988 The National Electrical Industries Ltd. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.525 OF 1988 M/s.Skefko India Bearing Co.Ltd. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.527 OF 1988 M/s.Permanent Magnets Ltd. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.555 OF 1988 Sidheshaw Sahakari Sakhar Karkhana Ltd. ... Appellant. AND INCOME TAX REFERENCE (L)NO.445 OF 1990 Dattani Enterprises. ... Appellant. V/s. Commissioner of Income Tax. 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 1981, 1982 and 1983 and some of them are pending since 1988. Almost more than 28 years have passed in some of the matters, whereas in some more than 20 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.)