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Appeal was handed over to the Chartered Accountant Shri Sumit Aggarwal. The said counsel advised that four months time was available for filing the appeal before the ITAT and since he was not appearing before the ITAT, he would engage some other professional for filing of the appeal. The said Chartered Accountant on his visit to a professional in Ambala for filing of the appeal, it was submitted, then learnt that the time limit for filing the appeal before the ITAT was infact 60 days from the date of the order and not 120 days as understood by him. Acting on the said information, the assessee was accordingly advised who promptly filed the appeal. The said appeal, it was submitted, was late by 21 days solely on account of the ignorance of the counsel. Relying upon; (a) Improvement Trust Ludhiana v. Ujagar Singh Civil Appeal No. 2395 of 2008 of June 9, 2010, (b) Jayvantsinh N Vaghela v. ITO [2013] 40 taxmann.com 491 (Gujarat) and (c) Paras Rice Mills Kurukshetra v. CIT ITA No. 657 of 2009 (Punj. & Har.), prayer for condoning the delay was made.

Symbiosis Pharmaceuticals (P.) Ltd. [2017] 87 taxmann.com 32 (Chandigarh – Trib.) 04-10-2017