Supreme Court of India

Commissioner of Income Tax, v. Vikram Cotton Mills Ltd.

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Reported as [1988] 2 S.C.R. 389
Bench Sabyasachi Mukharji and S. Ranganathan JJ.
Decided 15 December 1987

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Whether the income of the assessee company which lets out its assets temporarily is liable to tax as "profits and gains of business" or "Income from other sources"-Sections 10 and 12 of the Income Tax Act. The respondent, the assessee company, carried on business of manufacture of textiles. From the year 1949, the respondent started running into losses, resulting in the stoppage of its manufacturing acti· vity from December, 1953. In May, 1956, one of the creditors of the company filed a winding up petition in the High Court. One major creditor of the respondent company, in exercise of its

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