Bank's tax deductions on customer fixed-deposit interest and SLR investments, plus depreciation and provisions, upheld; disallowances deleted

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....Interest on customers' fixed deposits was held deductible because the taxpayer produced contemporaneous evidence of deposits and TDS, and mere absence of payee-side acknowledgement could not justify disallowance; deletion was sustained. Disallowance under s.14A r.w. Rule 8D was held inapplicable as the investments were maintained for SLR/CRR as stock-in-trade, following binding precedent; deletion was sustained. Depreciation on temporary wooden structures and software expenditure were treated as allowable (as per consistency with earlier years); disallowances were rejected. Inter-office adjustment provision was treated as an allowable anticipated liability supported by material, not a contingent/non-existent liability; disallowance was reje.........