1986 (8) TMI 38

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....sessee, a registered firm, carried on business as dealer in gur and shakar and also as commission agent. For the assessment year 1970-71, it filed a return showing an income of Rs. 8,660. The assessing authority assessed the income at Rs. 1,02,050 which was reduced to Rs. 99,760 by the Appellate Assistant Commissioner and to Rs. 94,760 by the Tribunal. The Income-tax Officer had found during the c....

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....ved thereby, the Revenue moved an application under section 256(1) of the Income-tax Act (hereinafter called "the Act") which was allowed and the following three questions have been referred to this court : "(i) Whether the Tribunal has been right in law in holding that when the Income-tax Officer and the Inspecting Assistant Commissioner did not invoke the Explanation to section 271(1)(c) of t....

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....Tribunal in holding that no penalty was exigible relied on Addl. CIT v. Karnail Singh [1974] 94 ITR 505 (P & H). As the decision in the said case has been overruled by the Fail Bench of this court in Vishwakarma Industries v. CIT [1982] 135 ITR 652, the order of the Tribunal was also liable to be reversed. We, however, do not find any merit in this contention. Reliance on Karnail Singh's case [197....