Pune: The second hearing in Amadea Enterprises LLP’s appeal against the stamp duty demand in the Mundhwa land transaction has been rescheduled for March 9, as the earlier scheduled date of March 3 was a govt holiday, registration department officials said on Wednesday.Amadea Enterprises LLP — in which Digvijay Patil and Parth Pawar, son of the late Ajit Pawar, are partners — was issued a notice to pay a stamp duty shortfall of Rs 21 crore for a sale deed executed in May 2025. Under the Maharashtra Stamp Act, a statutory penalty of 1% per month applied too. The firm challenged both the shortfall and the penalty after failing to pay the dues by the Feb 10 deadline. During the first hearing on Feb 16, the firm’s lawyers had sought additional documents and requested a month’s time before the next hearing.The officials clarified that the firm had not received any stamp duty waiver. “This is a quasi-judicial process. Since the firm has disputed the demand notice and refused to accept the liability and penalty, the IGR is legally bound to grant a hearing. A decision will be taken only after that,” a senior official said.The department had earlier warned that coercive recovery measures would begin if the dues were not cleared by Feb 10. Some initial internal steps toward recovery had already been initiated, but the final course of action would depend on the outcome of the appeal, the officials said. “There is no stay order at present. The recovery process will continue as per procedure,” another official said.
