1991 (12) TMI 3

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....application under section 256(2) of the Income-tax Act, 1961, by the Commissioner of Income-tax, Vidarbha Region, Nagpur, for a direction to the Tribunal to state the case and to refer the following questions of law for the opinion of this court : " (1) Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the Appellate Tribunal was justified in holding that the assessee is entitled for e....

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.... 1978-79 exemption under section 54 of the Income-tax Act, but the Income-tax Officer declined to grant exemption on the ground that the registered sale deed for the said flat was not executed within a period of one year of the sale of Khamgaon house. The assessee's appeal was allowed by the Commissioner of Income-tax (Appeals). Exemption as claimed was granted and the Tribunal upheld the order of....

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....ontextual meaning to the word " purchase " in an insurance policy, the Madras High Court in the case of C. Duraiswami Iyangar v. United India Life Assurance Co. Ltd. [1956] 26 Comp Cas (Ins) 12 ; AIR 1956 Mad 316 has observed : " We consider that the word ' purchase ' in article 116 must be given a wider meaning so as to include the construction of a new building ; that is to say, the word ' pu....

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....as well as the spirit of section 54 and the word " towards " used before the word " purchase " in sub-section (2) of section 54, it seems to us that the said word is not used in the sense of legal transfer and, therefore, the holding of a legal title within a period of one year is not a condition precedent for attracting section 54. In the instant case, the whole consideration was paid, possession....