Supreme Court of India

Brij Lal & Ors. v. Commissioner of Income Tax Act, 1961

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Reported as [2010] 11 S.C.R. 1167
Bench S.H. Kapadia, B. Sudershan Reddy, K.S. Panicker Radhakrishnan, Surinder Singh Nijjar and Swatanter Kumar JJ.
Decided 21 October 2010

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What the Court ordered

We hold that Settlement Commission cannot reopen its concluded proceedings by invoking section 154 of the Act.

Judgment, page 53

From the headnote

INCOME TAX ACT, 1961: c CHAPTER X1X- - Sections 245- , 245-0 (1) and 245- 0(4) rlw s. 234- - Settlement Commission - Settlement of cases - Interest for default in payment of advance tax - Applicability of s. 234- - Held: Sections 234- , 234- and 0 234- are applicable to the proceedings of the Settlement Commission under Chapter XIX- - Sections 234- , 245- 0(2C) and s.245-0(6A) operate in different fields - Section 234- comes into operation when there is default in payment of advance tax whereas liability to pay interest u/s 245-0(2C) arises when the additional amount of income tax is not paid

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 relied on · 1 referred to

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