2006 (5) TMI 569

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....hri Sanjieva Shankhdhar, the learned counsel for the appellants and Shri Waseequddin, the learned counsel for the respondent. This is a bunch of fourteen appeals preferred under section 260A of the Income-tax Act with respect to different assessment years, namely, 1994-95, 1995-96, 1996-97, 1997-98, 1998-99 1999-2000 and 2000-01. 2. The following substantial questions of law have been raised in t....

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....on-deduction of tax at source, for which penalty has been imposed under section 271C of the Income-tax Act and against which an appeal is already pending, would not absolve the assessee of the penalty imposable under sections 272A(2)(g) and 272A(2)(c). It is further submitted by him that the violation of provisions of sections 203 and 206 itself makes out a case for levying the penalty, irrespecti....

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....ced before us. In Sri Ram Memorial Education Promotion Society's case (supra) in which one of us (R.P. Yadav, J.) was a member, the view taken by this Court was that once a person prescribed or concerned or the assessee has been subjected to a penalty under section 271C, for not deducting the tax at source, there would not arise any occasion for levying a penalty under sections 272A(c) and 272....