Option Once Exercised For A Financial Year May Not Be Withdrawn Midway: Allahabad High Court

The Allahabad High Court has held that an option, once exercised for a financial year, may not be withdrawn midway.The bench of Justice Saumitra Dayal Singh and Justice Donadi Ramesh has observed that the only recourse that applicant may have taken may be to apply to the jurisdictional authority to discontinue the benefit of the compounding scheme from the beginning of the next financial year, i.e., 1.4.1998. For the option to be exercised, the applicant ought to have made that application...