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Issues: Whether the unrecovered amount excluded in the arbitral award was a bad debt allowable as deduction under section 36(1)(vii) read with section 36(2) of the Income-tax Act, 1961, and whether acceptance of the award amounted to waiver or forgone claim.
Analysis: The amount in question had been reflected in the books and had earlier been subjected to tax. The difference between the claim and the amount awarded by the arbitrator was not recovered, despite an attempt to challenge the award in appropriate proceedings. Acceptance of the award, reached through a statutorily recognised process, did not by itself amount to waiver or abandonment of the claim. The legal distinction is between surrender of a claim and failure to realise an amount that has become irrecoverable after exhausting recognised means of recovery. No collusion or frivolous acceptance was found, and the business expedience of accepting the award could not be questioned.
Conclusion: The conditions of section 36(2) were satisfied. The irrecoverable portion was a bad debt allowable under section 36(1)(vii), and the question was answered in favour of the assessee.
Ratio Decidendi: Failure to realise a debt after exhausting lawful and commercially accepted modes of recovery does not amount to waiver of the claim, and the irrecoverable balance is allowable as a bad debt if the statutory conditions are satisfied.
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