1,346 petitions, 450 lawyers: Delhi High Court quashes all reassessment orders issued after March 31

The Delhi High Court on Wednesday quashed nearly 1,350 reassessment notices issued by the Income Tax Department under Section 148 of the Income Tax Act, 1961 [Mon Mohan Kohli v Assistant Commissioner of Income Tax and Anr]..The said notices were issued by the Income Tax department for reopening of assessment on the ground that the income of these people was much more than what they had declared in their income tax returns filed from financial 2013-14 till date..As hundreds of people filed the petitions challenging the reassessment order, the Bench of Justices Manmohan and Navin Chawla dealt with them together and quashed each of the notice. .Dealing with such a huge batch of petitioners also meant that an army of lawyers appeared in the matter.According to the court order, more than 450 lawyers appeared in the matters. While over 290 of them were appearing for the petitioners, more than 160 represented the respondents..Advocates for petitioners:Kavita Jha, Vaibhav Kulkarni, Udit Naresh, Anant Mann, Aditeya Bali, Rahul Unnikrishnan, Himanshu Aggarwal, Shwetha Prabhakar, Ved Jain, Richa Mishra, Rohit Jain, Neeraj Jain, Aniket D. Agrawal, Manisha Sharma, Aseem Chawla, Manu K. Giri, Ashish Dhunna, Soniya Dodeja, Piyush Kaushik, Sachit Jolly, Anuradha Dutt, Rohit Garg, Disha Jham, Mehak Sachdeva, Sohum Dua, Kapil Gupta, . Puneet Agarwal, Yuvraj Singh, Prem Kandpal, Chetan Kumar Shukla, Hemlata Rawat, Gaurav Gupta, Jaspal Singh Sethi, Gaurav Gupta, Sahiba Pantel, T.M. Shivakumar, Manibhadra Jain, Dr. Rakesh Gupta, Somil Agarwal, Tani Malik, Anshul Mittal, Mayank Nagi, Arvind Kumar, Devina Sharma, Sunil K.Mukhi, Ishan Garg, T.S Nerwal, P.C. Yadav, Raghvendra Singh, Satish kumar, Rahul Chaudhary, Avesh Chaudhary, Abhay Shankar Dubey, Navin Kumar, Deepak, Rohit Pal, Kamal Sawhney, Prashant Meharchandani, Nikhil Agarwal, Arun Bhaduria, Divyansh Singh, Inder Paul Bansal, Vivek Bansal, Suresh Chandra Sati, Sushil Tekriwal, Dr. Mamta Tekriwal, Piyush Singhal, Risabh Sharma, Rajiv Kumar Virmani, Abhinav Agrawal, Rishi Vohar, Swati Bhardwaj, Rishabh Ostwal, Rano Jain, Venketesh Chaurasia, Sourav Vig, Tushar Gupta, Virender Mehta, Manish Paliwal, Vikas Kumar, Vishal Aggarwal, Anish Sarna, Pankaj Gupta, Rimpy Gupta, Harshit Batra, Ritesh Bajaj, A.K. Babbar, V.K. Sabharwal, Surendra Kumar, B.K. Tripathi, Vanita Bhargava, Ajay Bhargava, Shweta Kabra, Prerna Singh, Rashmi Chopra, Kishore Kunal, Manish Rastogi, Parth, Sumit Khadaria, Amol Sinha, Anshum Jain, Ashvini Kumar, Ashvini Kumar, Rahul Kochar, Kshitiz Garg, Abhinav Arya, Shreya Jain, Gaurav Tanwar, Pulkit Deora, Arnav Vidyarthi, Sh. Pankaj Jain, Gaurav Mittal, Divya Suri, Sachin Bhardwaj, Bhupinder Jit Kumar, Jyoti Taneja, Vidur Kamra, Neeraj Jain, Aditya Vohra, Divyanshu Agrawal, Ritika Chawla, Vaibhav Niti, Jitesh Talwani, Abhimanyu Goyal, Sahil Mahajan, Anjali, Krishna kumar Agarwal, Sharad Agarwal, Monika Ghai, Poonam Ahuja, R. Madhav Bera, Divyansh Jain, Dennis T Panmei, Aakash Bhardwaj, Rishi Jaiswal, Keshav Maheshwari, Akansha Gupta,Tanya Minocha, Udai Khanna, Ritambhara Narang, Pranay Mohan Govil, Sagar Rohatgi, Manuj Sabharwal, Ankur Bansal, Mukul Rawal, Devendra Dang, Mukesh Gupta, Shashi Gandhi, Prakash Kumar, Rashmi Singh, Ansh Singh Luthra, Harmanpreet Singh Kohli, Abhishek Samal, Nitin Gulati, Arnav Kumar, Rajat Mittal, Devrath Arora, Lakshay Virmani, Sagar Rohatgi, Anil Kumar Chunduru, Neeraj Kumar Jha, Kapil Hirani, Shakul R. Ghatole, Sumit K Batra, Manis h Khurana, Bharat Beriwal, Priyadarshini Dewan, Shankari Mishra, Priyesh Srivastava, Jaya Goyal, Manpreet Kaur, Yogesh K. Jagia, Amit Sood, Rishabh Nangia, Gautam Jain, Piyush Kumar Kamal, Nagesh Kumar Behl, Mayank Pachauri, Vishal Gourav, Simran Mehta, Shri Tejasvi Goel, K. Sampath, S. Krishnan, Rakesh Kumar, Mayank Nagi, Tarun Singh, Pulkit Verma, Ruchesh Sinha, Gautam Khaitan, AT Patra, Aditya Ghadge, Ramaditya Tiwari, Divya, Priamvada Surolia, Lakshita Arora, Abhishek Parmar, Shafiq Khan, Ranjana Roy Gawai, Ujjwal Jain, Shikher Upadhyay, P.R Rajhans, Ankur Vats, Vivek Singh, Sekhar Gupta, Mehendra Pratap, Deepanshu Jain, Shaantanu Jain, Gagan Kumar, Abhimanyu, Ankit Panwar, Parth Dixit, Abhishek Singh, Leena Kalra, Hemant Shah, Saurabh Pal, R. K. Handoo, Yoginder Handoo, Ashwin Kataria, Aditya Chaudhary Raghav Bhalla, Rahul Malhotra, Manas Tripathi, Diksha Singh Dhakre, K.R. Manjani, Tarun Aswani, Vishal Kalra, S.S. Tomar, Ankit Sahni, Rajeev Sharma, Kapil Goel, Sandeep Goel, Rohit Bansal, Amit Kaushik, Vikas Arora, Radhika Arora, Mohit Dagar, Satyen Sethi, Arta Trana Panda, Rupesh Kumar, Neelam Sharma, Pankhuri Shrivastava, Pravesh Bahuguna, Alekshendra Sharma, Sougat Sinha, Manoj Kumar, Hemant Singh, Mridul Chakravarty, Tushar Srivastava, Shruti Gupta, Lavanya Panwar, Dr. Shashwat Bajpai, Vishal Aggarwal, Rakesh Jain, Pragyan Pradip Sharma, Gurnoor Kaur, Surbhi Chandra, Kanishk Agarwal, Mayank Patni, Nidhi Bhuwania, Rajiv K. Garg, Ashish Garg, R. K. Handoo, Garvit Solanki, Deepak Chopra, Harpreet Singh Ajmani, Rashi Khanna, Priya Tandon, Manasvine Bajpai, Shekhar Gupta, Mani Bhadra Jain, Vishnu Langwat, Nidhi Tomar, Vinay Pal, Vaibhav Sharma, Bandana Grover, Sumit Singh, Debesh Panda, Anandita Sharma, Harvinder Oberoi, Purav Middha, Akarsh Garg, Parth Davar, Sushant Singhal, Himanshu Aggarwal, Sabhay Choudhary, Harpreet Singh, Gagan Kumar Singhal, Gaurav Jain, Gautam Jain, Anirudh Bakhru, Ayush Puri, Umang Tyagi, Tejaswini Chandrasekhar..Advocates for Respondents: Zoheb Hossain, Vipul Agarwal, Parth Semwal, Sunil Agarwal, Tushar Gupta, Samarth Chaudhari, Puneet Rai, Adeeba Mujahid, Ruchir Bhatia, Abhishek Maratha, Sanjay Kumar, Easha Kadiyan, Vibhooti Malhotra, Shailender Singh, Udit Sharma, Harpreet Singh, Arunesh Sharma, Suhani Mathur, Kunal Sharma, Zehra Khan, Shubhendu Bhattacharya, Ajit Sharma, Anant Ram Mishra, Sanjeev Sabharwal, Avnish Singh, Pushplata Singh, P.C Yadav, Vivek Goyal, Nawal Kishore Jha, Dilbag Singh Kamal Kant Jha, Ranvir Singh, D.S.Mehandru, Anil Dabas, Praveen Kumar Jain, Richa Dhawan, Aakanksha Kaul, Manek Singh, Aman Sahani, Nitin Khanna, Arti Bansal, Prakash Kumar, Narendra Kumar Srivastava, Praveen Kumar Jain, Talish Ray, Sunieta Ojha, Neeraj, Sahaj Garg, Vedansh Anand, Rudra Paliwal, Sanjay Pal, Ajay Digpaul, Kamal R. Digpaul, Ravi Prakash, Gurtejpal Singh, Shruti Shivkumar, Ashwani Kumar Sharma, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Rahul Mourya, Sweety Singh Chauhan, Anjum Kaur, Jitesh Vikram Srivastava, Prajesh Vikram Srivastava, Aakanksha Kaul, Manek Singh, Aman Sahani, Ajay Digpaul, Vivekanand Mishra, Ruchir Mishra, Mukesh Kumar Tiwari, Shankar Kumar Jha, Manoj Kumar Tyagi, Chiranjiv Kumar, Tanveer Ahmed Ansari, Pradeep Kumar Sharma, Siddharth Khatana, Leena Tuteja, T. P.Singh, Bhagvan Swarup Shukla, Sarvan Kumar, Dev P Bhardwaj, Anubha Bhardwaj, Satyendra Kumar, Satya Ranjan Swain, Kautilya Birat, Farman Ali, Athar Raza Farooquei, Sushil Kumar Pandey, Aman Malik, Jivesh Tiwari, Manisha Agrawal Narain, Rakshita Goyal, Aditya Deshwal, Suman Chauhan, Rishabh Sahu, Gigi C George, Ayush Agrawal, Vikrant Singh Bloria, Sushant Tomar, Naginder Benipal, Naveen Chawla, Harithi Kambiri, B.N.P. Pathak, Vikrant N Goyal, Jaswant Rai Aggarwal, Akshay Amritanshu, Kartikey Singh, Ghanshyam Mishra, Vinita Sharma, Satyanand, Rajesh Kumar, Harish Kumar Garg, Rajesh Gogna, Vaibhav Anand, Chiranjiv Kumar, Sandeep Tyagi, Akhilesh Kumar, Nidhi Banga, Kirti Arora, Anju Gupta, Shashank Bajpai, Shakun Sudha Shukla, Dhananjay Tiwari, Niraj Kumar, S.S. Rai, Roopam Rai, Alok Singh, Sonam Awasthi, Gaurav Bhardwaj, Prasanta Varma, Prativa Varma, Amrit Singh Khalsa, Hiteshi Kakkar, D. Sharma, Asheesh Jain, Adarsh Kr. Gupta, Saroj Bidawat, Archana Gaur, Ayush Agrawal, Vikrant Singh Bloria, P. S. Singh, Ashish Verma, Debopriyo Moulik, Sonu Bhatnagar, Venus Mehrotra, Kanak Grover, Rajesh Gogna, Arihant Jain, Kirtiman Singh, Taha Yasin, Sarika Singh, Rahul Sharma, C.K.Bhatt, Virender Pratap Singh Charak, Shubhra Parashar, Pushpender Singh Charak, Kapil Gaur, Vaishnav Kirti Singh, Shubham Ahuja, Sanjay Singh Chauhan, Ram Pal Singh Tomar, Gyanwardhan Singh, Vivek Nagar, Nirvikar Verma, Rajesh Kumar, Manish Mohan, Manisha Saroha, Shyam Sundar Rai..Reassessment notices issued after March 31 under old Income Tax regime quashed by Delhi High Court