Supreme Court of India

Commissioner of Income-tax, Madras v. Mir Mohd. Ali, Bus Owner, Vellore

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Reported as [1964] 7 S.C.R. 846
Bench K. Subba Rao, J.C. Shah and S.M. Sikri JJ.
Decided 24 April 1964

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the High Court was correct in answering the question referred to it in the affirmative.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

Income Tax-Depreciation allowance-Replacement of petrol engine in a bus by new Diesel engine-If amounts to installation of machin.ery-"Installation of mJchinery" Mean­ ing of-Indian Income-tax Act, 1922 (11 of 1922), ss. 10(2)(vi). 10(2)(vial. The assessee, who was the owner of a fleet of buses, rep­ laced the petrol engines in two of his buses by new Diesel engines incurring an expenditure of Rs. 18,544/- in this con­ nection, during the year of account ending with March 31, 1950. For the relevant assessment year he claimed deprecia­ tion allowance under the second para of cl. (vi) and cl.

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