1989 (2) TMI 18

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....law have been referred to this court by the Tribunal under section 256(1) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 ("the Act") "(1) Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case and on a proper interpretation of the deed of endowment dated April 28, 1896, the Tribunal was right in holding that the individual shares of the deities in whose favour the endowment had been made were not indeterminat....

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....nt years 1952-53, 1953-54 and 1954-55. The correctness of the assessments in those years came up for consideration before this court in the case of CIT v. Pulin Chandra Daw [1967] 63 ITR 179, 181, the question there being : "Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, and on a proper construction of the deed of dedication, dated 17th Baisakh, 1303 B. S. (28th April, 1896), the i....

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....ion was as under : "Whether, on the facts and circumstances of this case, the Appellate Tribunal were right in holding that although the shares of the two deities are not defined in the deed of endowment, their shares are defined in law, that is, they are equal, and, therefore, the first proviso to section 41 is inapplicable ?" It was held that where the shares of the deities were indetermin....