Before going into writ raise objections to Notice u/s 148 before AO

Crown Consultants (P.) Ltd. v. CIT [2014] 362 ITR 368/224 Taxman 81 (Mag.)/44 taxmann.com 397 (Bombay High Court) has taken a view that where an objection is not taken before the Assessing officer while responding to the reasons in support of a notice seeking reopen an assessment, then it is not open to assessee to raise such objection for the first time before this (High) Court in writ proceedings under Article 226. The exception of course being if the impugned notice is ex-facie without jurisdiction and no determination of facts are required to establish it is without jurisdiction.

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