CAT Quashes Appointment of AK Basu as CBDT Member - Laxman Das to be considered
LAXMAN Das, Chief Commissioner of Income Tax, a 1974 batch IRS officer has challenged the selection and appointment of AK Basu as Member of CBDT, on the ground that Basu did not have a residual service of one year on the date of vacancy. The Central Administrative Tribunal has quashed the selection and appointment of Basu as it was illegal. The Tribunal directed hat the Review Selection Committee shall be convened to consider the application of Laxman Das for the post of Member-CBDT within a period of three months.
If Laxman das is considered and appointed to the Board, he would be senior to all the Members including the Chairman and would be the obvious choice for the next Chairmanship. He will retire in July 2012. Will he make it the top slot in the CBDT before that? Now the Government has to decide whether to consider him for appointment or take the legal battle further.