Authority: Supreme Court (Special Lok Adalat)

Order Date: 21-08-2026

Case Overview

  • Parties: Meinhardt Singapore Pte. Ltd., represented by Country Director Rajesh Srivastava, as appellant; Assistant Director of Income Tax as respondent.
  • Civil Appeal No.7777/2014 filed before the Special Lok Adalat of the Supreme Court.
  • The appellant sought permission to add further additional prayers and to file additional documents, facts, and annexures in multiple Interlocutory Applications: IA No.108698/2019, IA No.8326/2025, IA No.53851/2024, IA No.253332/2023 (Samadhan Samaroh).
  • Hearing conducted on 21‑08‑2026 before Chief Justice Joymalya Bagchi, Justice V. Mohana and Justice Pradeep Rai, with senior advocates representing the appellant (Mrs. Anil Katiyar, Mr. Sandeep Tewari, Mr. Bhargava V. Desai, Mrs. Rekha S Tewari, Mr. Shivam Sharma, Ms. Shingying Kristy, Mr. Haroon Rashid, Ms. Pableen Ahuja, Mr. Raj Bahadur Yadav, Mr. Santosh Kumar, Mr. Sandeep S Tiwari, Ms. Prabhleen Ahuja, Mr. Rameshwar Prasad Goyal).
  • Registrars Satish Kumar Yadav and Preethi Dileep Kumar recorded the award.

Final Outcome

  • The Court granted permission to the appellant to file the additional prayers and to submit the additional documents, facts, and annexures in each of the cited IA applications.
  • The award was formally listed on 22‑08‑2026 (Samadhan Samaroh).

Topics: Tax Dispute, Supreme Court