Supreme Court of India

Commissioner of Wealth Tax, West Bengal v. Champa Kumari Singhi & Ors.

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Reported as [1972] 3 S.C.R. 118
Bench K. S. Hegde, A. N. Grover and A. N. Ray JJ.
Decided 19 January 1972

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Wealth Tax Act, 1957, Section 3-Jain undivided family, whether Hindu Vndivided Fa111ily. The High Court held that the assessee, a Jain undivided family was not a Hindu undivided family within the meaning of section 3 of Wealth Tax Act, 1957. According to· the High Court, in order to form a Hindu undivided family its members must be Hindus; the assessee family being Jains were not Hindus and so its members could not form a Hindu un­ divided family although it was "capable of forming a unit of very much of the same type and g_overned by the law applying to a Hindu undivided family". On the

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