{"id":74972,"date":"2026-02-10T07:46:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:16:24","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2026-02-10T07:46:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-10T02:16:24","slug":"power-to-summon-under-section-70-of-cgst-act-affirmed-summons-not-detention-and-compensation-claim-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/?p=74972","title":{"rendered":"Power to summon under Section 70 of CGST Act affirmed; summons not detention and compensation claim dismissed."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Power to summon under Section 70 of CGST Act affirmed; summons not detention and compensation claim dismissed.<br \/>Case-Laws<br \/>GST<br \/>Power to summon under Section 70 of the CGST Act permits issuance of summons for inquiry and such attendance does not by itself constitute arrest or illegal detention; therefore no seven day prior notice is mandated by Section 70 and Order XVI C.P.C. requirement was held inapplicable. The petitioner attended and acknowledged multiple summonses without objection, w<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><strong>Plain text (Extract) only<\/strong><BR>For full text:-<a href=\"https:\/\/www.taxtmi.com\/highlights?id=96763\">Visit the Source <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">=  =  =  =  =  =  =  =<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power to summon under Section 70 of CGST Act affirmed; summons not detention and compensation claim dismissed.Case-LawsGSTPower to summon under Section 70 of the CGST Act permits issuance of summons for inquiry and such attendance does not by itself const<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74972","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=74972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74972\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=74972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=74972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/goodsandservicetax.in\/GST\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=74972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}