Supreme Court of India

Commissioner of Income-tax, Nagpur v. Rai Bahadur Jairam Valji and Others

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Reported as [1959] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 110
Bench T.L. Venkatarama Aiyyar, P.B. Gajendragadkar and A.K. Sarkar JJ.
Decided 7 October 1958

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What the Court ordered

In the result, the appeal is allowed, the judgment of the High Court set a.side and the order of the Tl'ibuna.l restored.

Judgment, page 24

From the headnote

Income Tax-Capital or Revenue receipt-Compensation for premature termination of contract_..:.Whether trading reccipt-Liabi· lity to tax-Indian Income-tax Act, r922 (XI of r922). The respondent had been carrying on business in the produc­ tion and supply of limestone since 1920, and under an agreement entered into with the Bengal Iron Company was supplying all its requirements of limestone and dolomite. Sometime later the Indian Iron and Steel Company took over all the assets and liabilities of the former company. Subsequently differences having arisen between the respondent and the Indian

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