Supreme Court of India

T.D. Venkata Rao v. Union of India

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Reported as [1998] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 418
Bench S.P. Bharucha and V.N. Khare JJ.
Decided 8 December 1998

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Income Tax Act, 1961: Section 44(AB)-"Chartered Accountants" and "Income Tax Practitioners "-Auditing of accounts-Entitling only Chartered Accountants and not income tax practitioner from auditing the accounts of assessee-Validity of-Held, Chartered Accountants by training have special aptitude in the matter of audits-Thus it is reasonable that they who form a clas~ by themselves should be required to audit the accounts-No violation of Articles 14 and 19---Constitution of India, 1950: Articles I4 and 19. The appellant challenged the validity of Section 44(AB)of the Income Tax Act, 1961 which

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