On a conjoint reading of the conveyance deed and consent terms,...

On a conjoint reading of the conveyance deed and consent terms, the assessee was found to have relinquished all rights, title, interest and possession in the entire larger land, so the consideration was treated as a global settlement for extinguishment of the whole bundle of rights. The Tribunal held that the assessee's development and possessory rights were themselves a capital asset, and their extinguishment amounted to a transfer. As the indexed cost claimed related to those intangible rights, not to ownership of the physical land, restriction of cost by reference only to the portion conveyed was unsustainable. The deletion of the addition was upheld.

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