Deduction Claim Denied: New Agricultural Land Purchase Must Be in Assessee's Name for LTCG Exemption u/s 54B.

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....LTCG - Deduction u/s 54B - investment in the name of wife - purchase of new agricultural land - Wife of the appellant cannot be termed as an ‘assessee’ as per Section 2 (7) of the IT Act. So enlarging the scope of the assessee as defined under Section 2(7) to envelope the wife of the appellant to envelop the transaction to “exemption” would amount to superseed the legislative requirement and the spirit of the provision. - HC....