Section 50C(1)'s proviso permits stamp-duty valuation on the...

Section 50C(1)'s proviso permits stamp-duty valuation on the date consideration was fixed rather than the registration date where the two dates differ. In a rehabilitation-related land transfer, statutory proceedings, resolutions, banking-channel advance receipt and a sanctioned scheme may collectively establish that consideration crystallised before registration, even without a conventional sale agreement. Later increases in guideline value or stamp-authority valuation cannot retrospectively replace that agreed consideration absent independent evidence of higher fair market value. The beneficial proviso operates retrospectively to relieve hardship. Accordingly, valuation applicable when consideration was fixed was adopted and the long-term capital gains addition was deleted.