1995 (7) TMI 7

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....ARI J.---The following questions of law have been referred by the Tribunal to this court at the instance of the assessee under section 27 of the Wealth-tax Act, 1957 : " 1. Whether the Tribunal was right in holding that books forming part of the library of an advocate were outside the purview of 'books' as contemplated in section 5(1)(xii) of the Wealth-tax Act ? 2. Whether books forming par....

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.... archaeological, scientific or art collections, books or manuscripts belonging to the assessee and not intended for sale. The questions raised require interpretation and reasonable construction to be put on the provisions of clauses (x) and (xii) of the Act quoted above. The question is whether the law books in the library of an advocate can be described as falling within the items "tools and i....

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....rt collections. The rules of ejusdem generis cannot be applied looking to the nature of the items and the manner they are enumerated in clause (xii). The assessee is an advocate and appeared for his own case. He relied on a Division Bench decision of the Allahabad High Court reported in CWT v. S. N. Kacker [1989] 175 ITR 129, and another Division Bench decision of the Delhi High Court reported ....