The most important case on the constitutional validity of the national anti profiting authority (NAA) beneath the goods and services tax (GST) platform has been deferred by the Delhi high court.
Around 50 applicants are involved by dominant companies such as Hindustan Unilever, Patanjali, Jubilant Foodworks, Reckitt Benckiser, Johnson & Johnson, Phillips, and Subway. As the questions were no longer consensus hence the case was deferred. The court has implemented to listen to all the questions which are required to hear. For the period of 4 weeks, the matter is to be heard as decided by the high court says Abhishek Rastogi, counsel for many petitioners and partner at Khaitan & Co Ltd.
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“While it is a good thing that the court has agreed to hear all the issues comprehensively, frankly the list could have been truncated as far as the decision is required to be taken on the constitutional aspect of the provisions,”
On the number of applications, the court had before said that every applicant needs to furnish the submissions in 5 pages. In the first round of hearing the court has announced that it was obvious that there is no agreement between those who had asked the authority along with the union government with respect to the problems created. There are only 14 issues that are tangible out of 48 announced by the union government.