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Issues: Whether the Tribunal's direction vacating the Appellate Assistant Commissioner's order and restoring the appeal for disposal on its merits permitted a fresh consideration of the entire appeal, or was confined only to the assessee's claim for relief from super-tax under section 25(4) of the Income-tax Act, 1922.
Analysis: The order of remand had to be read in its context and in the light of the reasons recorded by the Tribunal. The dispute before the Tribunal concerned only the assessee's right to relief from super-tax, and the request made before it was for the appeal to be sent back for decision on that narrow question. Although the words used in the final sentence could, if read in isolation, suggest a wider remand, the surrounding language showed that the Tribunal intended only to reopen the super-tax issue. The Appellate Assistant Commissioner therefore had no jurisdiction to travel beyond that limited question and reopen matters that had already become conclusive.
Conclusion: The remand was limited to the merits of the claim for relief from super-tax, and not to the whole appeal. The answer to the reference was against the Revenue and in favour of the assessee.
Ratio Decidendi: A remand order must be construed as a whole and in context, and where the appellate authority's intention is to reopen only a specific issue, the lower authority cannot exceed that limited mandate.
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