Court Rules Assessee Entitled to Tax Exemption for Investments in Spouse's Name u/ss 54 and 54F.

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....Exemption u/s 54 /54F - investment made in the name of the asssessee’s wife - The right of a person, may be one half, in the residential house cannot be taken away without due process of law or it continues till there is a partition of such residential house. With great respect, this judgment would not be of any assistance to the Revenue to deny the benefit to the assessee since there is no such co-ownership or share in the property of Domlur house by the assessee. Even Section 27 of the Act could be of little assistance to the Department since the said definition contemplated is only for the purposes of Section 22 to 26 of the Act. - HC....