In pursuance of the consultations of the collegiums of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal consisting of the President and two senior-most Vice Presidents, Smt. Diva Singh, Judicial Member, Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, Kolkata Benches, Kolkata is hereby transferred in the same capacity to the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, Delhi Benches, New Delhi with effect from the forenoon of 20th May, 2011 for a period of one year.

2. On expiry of a period of one year from the date of joining at Delhi, she will report back at Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, Kolkata Benches, Kolkata, unless otherwise directed by the Competent Authority.

We wish the Hon’ble Member good luck in her new postings.

In pursuance of the consultations of the collegium of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal consisting of the President and two senior-most Vice-Presidents, the following Members of the Tribunal are hereby transferred in public interest, in the same capacity, to the Bench/es of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal as shown against their names

While Hon’ble Shri B.K. Haldar is transferred with effect from 18th April 2011, Hon’ble Shri. Narendra S. Saini & Shri A.K. Garodia are transferred with effect from 25th April 2011.

We wish the Hon’ble Members good luck in their new postings.

Vide order dated 22.3.2011 passed in pursuance of the consultation of the collegium of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal consisting of the President and two senior-most Vice Presidents, Shri S.V. Mehrotra, Accountant Member, Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, Mumbai Bench, Mumbai has been transferred, in public interest, in the same capacity to the Bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal at Kolkata with effect from the forenoon of 18th April, 2011.

We wish the Hon’ble Member good luck in his new posting.

In pursuance of the consultations of the collegium of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal consisting of the President and two senior-most Vice-Presidents, the following Members of the Tribunal are hereby transferred in public interest, in the same capacity, to the Bench/es of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal as shown against their names with effect from the forenoon of 1st April 2011

We wish the Hon’ble Members good luck in their new postings.

Vide order dated 27.1.2011 passed in pursuance of the consultations of the collegium of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal consisting of the President and two senior-most Vice Presidents, Shri N.R.S. Ganesan, Judicial Member, Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, Hyderabad Benches, Hyderabad has been transferred, in public interest, in the same capacity to the Bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal at Rajkot with effect from the forenoon of 14th February, 2011.

We wish the Hon’ble Member good luck in his new posting.

In pursuance of the consultations of the collegium of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal consisting of the President and two senior-most Vice-Presidents, the following Members of the Tribunal are hereby transferred in public interest, in the same capacity, to the Bench/es of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal as shown against their names with effect from the forenoon of 3rd January 2011

We wish the Hon’ble Members good luck in their new postings.

In pursuance of the consultations of the collegium of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal consisting of the President and two senior-most Vice-Presidents, the following Members of the Tribunal are hereby transferred in public interest, in the same capacity, to the Bench/es of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal as shown against their names with effect from the afternoon of 25th October, 2010

In addition, Hon’ble Shri. B. R. Jain, AM, has been transferred from the Jodhpur Bench to the Panaji Bench with effect from 1st November 2010.

We wish all Hon’ble Members good luck in their new postings.

Hon’ble Shri. R. V. Easwar has been appointed the officiating President of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal and has assumed charge at Mumbai on June 4, 2010.

We Wish Shri. Easwar good luck in his new posting.

Hon’ble Shri. Vimal Gandhi, President of the Tribunal retired today, 3rd June 2010. Shri. Gandhi practiced as an Advocate from 1970 to 1985 and joined the Tribunal as a Judicial Member on 16.9.1985. He served as Vice President from 6.8.1997 to 30.10.2003 and was appointed President on 31.10.2003. He served as President for six years and seven months. When Mr. Gandhi was appointed President, the pendency of matters in the Tribunal was 180,666 and this has been brought down to 47,000 as on 1.4.2010. Mr. Gandhi started the system of refresher course for the Members of the ITAT. He was also instrumental in allotting the library premises to the Bar Association, Mumbai. Mr. Gandhi represented the Tribunal at national and international seminars of repute including at the United Nations where he made a presentation of successful practices at the ITAT. He also formulated, for the benefit of Members, a Code of Conduct and broad guidelines on how judgements should be written.

Mr. Gandhi has been party to several landmark judgements such as Wallfort Shares & Stock Brokers 96 ITD 1 (Mum) (SB), Aztec Software 107 ITD 141 (Bang) (SB) and Hindustan Mint 119 ITD 107 (Del) (SB) among others.

We wish the Hon’ble President good luck in his future endeavours.

In pursuance of the consultations of the collegium of the I.T.A.T consisting of the President and two senior-most Vice Presidents, the following Members of the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal have been transferred, in public interest, in the same capacity, to the Bench(es) of the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal as shown against their names, with effect from the forenoon of 05.04.2010

We wish all Hon’ble Members good luck in their new postings.