Report of Justice Dr. BP Saraf National Tax Moot Court Competition The Moot court competitions offer a great opportunity to the students of law to build on what they are learning in law schools and apply it to practical life and after they become lawyers, they can appear before a judge with better confidence said Justice Altamas Kabir, Former Chief Justice of India in valedictory session of Justice Dr. B. P. Saraf National Tax Moot Court Competition was organized in Kolkata in the name of Justice Dr. B. P. Saraf , former Chief Justice of Jammu & Kashmir High Court. It was jointly organised by All India Federation of Tax Practitioners (AIFTP) and The West Bengal National University of Juridical Sciences (WBNUJS) on 16th and 17th of August, 2014 at WBNUJS campus, Salt Lake, Kolkata. Mr. Narayan Jain welcomed all the Judges, Moot Court participants in the final round of competition, which was adjudicated by a five member Bench comprising of Justice Altamas Kabir, former Chief Justice of India, Justice Asok Kumar Ganguly, former Judge, Supreme Court of India, Justice Sudip Ahluwalia, Justice Tapash Mookherjkee of Calcutta High Court and Justice B.L. Jain former Judge. The competition was organsied under the guidance of Prof. Dr. P. Iswara Bhat, Vice-Chancellor, WBNUJS and Dr. Ashok Saraf, Senior Advocate and Tax Advisor to Governments of Assam and Tripura. Mr. Indu Chatrath, Chairman, AIFTP East Zone said that the winner was National Law University Cuttack (represented by Anshu Bansal , Noopur Srivastava and Researcher Nidhi Jaiswal) and the runner up team was Hidayatullah National law University, Raipur (represented by Prashasti Singh Janghel, Ishan Khanna and Researcher Sachin Choudhary) in the competition. Prof. Dr. P. Iswara Bhat, Dr. Ashok Saraf, Mr. S.K. Poddar, Immediate Past National President, Abhishek Mishra appreciated the moot court. Dr. Saraf announced that being inspired by the success of first moot court in Kolkata, it shall be organized next year as well. During the inaugural session on the first day, Prof. Dr. P. Iswara Bhat, Vice Chancellor of NUJS was the Chief Guest while Mr. S.K. Poddar, Immediate Past National President , Dr. MVK Moorthy, Deputy President, AIFTP; Dr. Ashok Saraf, Senior Advocate and Tax Advisor to Government of Tripura were the Guests of Honour. A Souvenir was also released on the occasion by Dr. Ashok Saraf. The inaugural session was nicely conducted by Mr. Arvind Agarwal, Joint Convenor of the moot court. Mr. N.D. Saha, Secretary East Zone of AIFTP informed that the subject was revision of order by Commissioner of Income Tax under section 263 of the Income Tax Act. 45 participants from 15 Universities and Law Colleges from all over India participated in the competition. It included 6 National Law Universities. Mr. Sameer Sah extended his full help. Preliminary, Quarter final and Semi-Final Judges : These include Shri S.K. Poddar, Immediate Past President, AIFTP; Dr. MVK Moorthy, Deputy President, AIFTP; Shri S. Bandopadhyay, former Member, ITAT; Shri Gopal Chowdhury, former Member, ITAT; Shri Narayan Jain, Advocate; Dr.. Smt. Anitha Sumanth, Zone Chairperson, South Zone, Shri S.M. Surana, Shri B.N. Mahapatra, VP-AIFTP; CA Barun Ghosh; CA S.S. Gupta; Mr. RD Kakra, Advocate; CA Sanjay Bajoria; Shri Subash Agarwal; Shri Rajarshi Bhardwaj; CA Sanjay Bhattacharya; Shri Sameer Sah; Shri Udayan Dasgupta; Shri Chinmoy Dutta; Shri Manoj Kataruka and Shri Vigneswar Nath Datta. Members of the organizing committee: From WBNUJS were Professor (Dr.) P. Ishwara Bhat as the Chief Advisor; Mr. Abhishek Mishra, Faculty Advisor of Moot Court Society; Mr. Sanjay Kumar, Technical Member and Ms. Vanita Patnaik, Faculty – Member. The other members from AIFTP (East Zone) who extended their active help comprised of Sri Desh Bandhu Gupta, Advocate ; CA Anjan Sircar, Sri S.C. Garg, Advocate; Sri C.K. Chatterjee, Advocate; Sri Sandip Choraria, Advocate; Sri S.C. Sharma, Advocate; Sri Himadri Mukhopadhyay, Advocate; Sri Aditya Bubna, Advocate; Sri Bhaskar Sinha Roy, Advocate and Sri Vivek Agarwal, Advocate. This moot court programme will be held in next year as well, announced Dr. Saraf. Narayan Jain, Chairman of the Moot Court Committee
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