Directors require specific allegations for prosecution under Income Tax Act Section 277; automatic charges not permitted.

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....Offence under Section 277 - Whether all the Directors of the Company can be prosecuted for any violation of the Income Tax Act in terms by relying on the inclusive definition under Section 2(35) of the Income Tax Act? - all the Directors of the Company cannot be automatically prosecuted for any violation of the Income Tax Act. There has to be specific allegations made against each of the Directors who is intended to be prosecuted and such allegation would have to amount to an offence and satisfy the requirement of that particular provision under which the prosecution is sought to be initiated - HC....