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Issues: Whether the valuation of shares transferred from investment to stock-in-trade on 1 April 2003 was legally justified.
Analysis: The assessee was required to value current investments in accordance with the relevant prudential norms, namely at cost or break-up value, whichever was lower. The Court found that the assessee did not adopt that basis when the shares were converted, and that the negative break-up value reflected from the balance-sheet did not support the higher value adopted on the date of conversion. The Court further held that the apparent parity drawn with another company's shares was misplaced because the two holdings were not shown to be of the same character, and identical treatment cannot be insisted upon for dissimilar objects. The approach of the lower authorities in accepting the assessee's valuation was therefore held to be unsustainable.
Conclusion: The valuation adopted by the assessee was not justified in law; the issue was answered against the assessee and in favour of the Revenue.
Final Conclusion: The assessment order was restored in substance, and the addition relating to the impugned share valuation was upheld in accordance with law.
Ratio Decidendi: Where shares are converted from investment to stock-in-trade, the valuation must conform to the governing prudential valuation rule, and a parity-based justification cannot sustain a valuation that departs from that rule or treats dissimilar holdings as identical.
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