1996 (10) TMI 10

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....e or the privilege to aid in favour of the partnership firm of which he is a partner? (ii) such transfer, if any, is not prohibited under the Abkari Act? 2. Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the assessee is entitled to be treated as a registered firm under the Income-tax Act?" The assessee is a partnership firm consisting of fifteen partners engaged in arrack business. During the previous year ending March 31, 1987, relevant to the assessment year 1987-88, the seventh group arrack shops in Kumbala Range, Kasaragod district, were taken in auction for a sum of Rs, 18,17,227 by the partnership firm. However, the licences for the shops were in the names of partners---P. Kunhiraman, B. Vasantha Pai and A. Janardha....

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....of the Income-tax Act, 1961, and in this connection the apex court made an observation that since the licence is granted for dealing in intoxicating liquors, the business wherein is res extra commercium and also because they are supposed to be harmful and injurious to the health and morals of members of society, close control is envisaged and provided, over the business carried on under the licence. It is observed that this object will be defeated if the licensee is permitted to bring in strangers into the business, which would mean that instead of the licensee carrying on the business, it would be carried on by others, a situation not conducive to effective implementation of the excise law and consequently deleterious to public interest. T....