The Delhi High Court on Thursday dismissed four fresh petitions moved by the Congress party, challenging the Income Tax reassessment proceedings initiated against it.
A division bench of Justices Yashwant Varma and Purushaindra Kumar Kaurav rejected the petitions after both the Congress and the Income Tax Department agreed that the latest petitions stand covered by the judgment recently pronounced by the court, with regard to certain other assessment years.
Earlier, on March 22, the court had dismissed the petitions filed by Congress to challenge the re-assessment proceedings for the assessment years 2014-15, 2015-16 and 2016-17.
The latest four petitions for other assessment years in relation to which the Income Tax Department has initiated fresh scrutiny were dismissed by the court on similar terms today.
They concerned the assessment years 2017-18, 2018-19, 2019-20 and 2020-21.
Congress, which has been facing multiple tax-related proceedings in recent weeks, has accused the Union government of attempting to financially "cripple" it ahead of the Lok Sabha elections.
The political party has received back-to-back dismissals from the courts against its challenge to the proceedings initiated by the Income Tax Department.
