Section 269UH of Income Tax Act "Re-vesting of property in the transferor on failure of payment or deposit of consideration"
269UH. (1) If the Central Government fails to tender under sub-section (1) of section 269UG or deposit under sub-section (2) or sub-section (3) of the said section, the whole or any part of the amount of consideration required to be tendered or deposited thereunder within the period specified therein in respect of any immovable property which has vested in the Central Government under sub-section (1) or, as the case may be, sub-section (6) of section 269UE, the order to purchase the immovable property by the Central Government made under sub-section (1) of section 269UD shall stand abrogated and the immovable property shall stand re-vested in the transferor after the expiry of the aforesaid period :
Provided that where any dispute referred to in
sub-section (2) or sub-section (3) of section 269UG is
pending in any court for decision, the time taken by the
court to pass a final order under the said sub-sections
shall be excluded in computing the said period.
(2) Where an order made under sub-section (1) of section
269UD is abrogated and the immovable property re-vested in
the transferor under sub-section (1), the appropriate
authority shall make, as soon as may be, a declaration in
writing to this effect and shall-
(a) deliver a copy of the declaration to the persons
mentioned in sub-section (2) of section 269UD ; and
(b) deliver or cause to be delivered possession of the
immovable property back to the transferor, or, as the case
may be, to such other person as was in possession of the
property at the time of its vesting in the Central
Government under section 269UE.
269UI. The appropriate authority shall have, for the purposes of this Chapter, all the powers that a Principal Chief Commissioner or Chief Commissioner or Principal Commissioner or Commissioner of Income-tax has for the purposes of this Act under section 131.