1936 (10) TMI 11

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....e-tax was required to state the case and refer the following question to this Court: "Whether the Assistant Commissioner was right in refusing to register the firm?" The facts bearing upon the question of law involved in this case are these. A firm composed of Rai Sahib Chiranji Lal and his four sons had been registered under an instrument of partner- ship dated the 17th March, 1930, and had....

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.... was made. At the same time the application for registration was refused. From this order the assessee preferred an appeal to the Assistant Commissioner and in addition renewed his prayer for registration of the firm. The Assistant Commis- sioner, however, rejected the application for registration and con- firmed the assessment. Counsel for the assessee has relied on rule 2 of the rules made by....

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....f the firm. The only power that he could exercise under the rule was to permit the presentation of the application to the Income Tax Officer and thus to condone the delay so to say. Further, the matter was entirely discretionary with him and he could not be compelled under any provisions of the Act or the rules made thereunder to grant the prayer made to him by the assessee. The question before us....