IDR Dividend from SCB-India Not Taxable in India Due to Indo-Mauritius Treaty Protections under Article 22(1).

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....Income chargeable to tax in India - IDR dividend received from SCB-India - As regards the submissions about unintended benefit to the assessee, from an overall global perspective, we are not really concerned with such a question at this stage. All we have to examine is whether the impugned income taxable in India is treaty-protected in the hands of this assessee or not, and, so far as this question is concerned, for the detailed reasons set out above, our answer is in affirmative. The income in question is treaty-protected inasmuch as it cannot be taxed in the hands of the assessee, in India, by virtue of Article 22(1) of the Indo Mauritius tax treaty. - AT....