ORDER

Issue notice to the respondents.

Learned counsel Mr. Kuldeep Vaishnav puts in appearance on behalf of the respondents.

With the consent of the learned counsel for the parties, the case is being heard and decided today itself.

The petitioner was a dealer registered under the GST Act. Her registration came to be cancelled vide order dated 27.01.2021. The petitioner thereafter moved an application for revocation of the cancelled registration. The said application was rejected by the competent authority vide order dated 26.04.2021 (Annex.6). The petitioner preferred an appeal against the said order, which too has been dismissed by the appellate authority by order dated 06.10.2022 (Annex.8) for the sole reason that it was time barred.

Learned counsel Mr. Sharad Kothari, representing the petitioner, placed reliance on the judgments of this court in the cases of Poonamchand Saran Vs. Union of India & Anr. (D.B. Civil Writ Petition No.14521/2022 decided on 29.09.2022) and Prakash Purohit Vs. The Commissioner, Central Goods and Service Tax, Jaipur & Ors. (D.B. Civil Writ Petition No.16269/2022 decided on 10.11.2022) and urged that the appeal of the petitioner has been unjustifiably dismissed on the hyper-technical ground of delay. He submitted that the cancelled registration of the petitioner is causing loss to exchequer because she is being deprived from depositing GST with the Department.

In addition thereto, the petitioner is deprived of earning livelihood on account of cancellation of GST registration.

Learned counsel Mr. Kuldeep Vaishnav, representing the respondents, candidly concedes that no useful purpose would be served by sustaining cancelled registration status of the petitioner.

It cannot be denied that on account of cancellation of registration, the petitioner would be unable to continue with her business and which would lead to deprivation of means of livelihood, resulting into violation of right to life and liberty as enshrined in Article 21 of the Constitution of India. This would in turn, cause loss of revenue to the exchequer.

In this background, the impugned order dated 06.10.2022 dismissing the appeal preferred by the petitioner is set aside. The petitioner is given liberty to file appeal against cancellation of GST registration to the competent authority within a period of 10 days from today. Upon such appeal being filed, the same shall be considered and decided on all aspects in accordance with law excluding the bar of limitation in preferring the appeal by the petitioner.

With the above observations and directions, the writ petition is disposed of.