1961 (1) TMI 12

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....gment and order of the High Court of Calcutta dated December 14, 1955, in an income-tax reference under section 66(1) of the Indian Income-tax Act. The High Court answered the question : " Whether, on the above facts and circumstances of this case, there was any material before the Tribunal to hold that the assessee purchased gold in the year 1918 which he sold in the year under consideration and the sum of Rs. 72,523 represents the sale proceeds of such gold ? " . in the negative. The facts of the case are simple. For the assessment year 1945-46 corresponding to the financial year 1944-45 the Income-tax Officer found a sum of Rs. 72,523 credited in the name of Ganesh Das Hanuman Prasad, father of the assessee. The assessee was cal....

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....tion has the ring of truth. We accept it and exclude the sum of Rs. 72,523 from the assessment. " The Commissioner of Income-tax then applied for a reference, and the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal, Calcutta Bench, which had by then changed, referred the case on the above stated question. The High Court of Calcutta called for a supplementary statement of the case under section 66(4), and directed the Tribunal to draw up and to forward to the court a supplementary statement " as to the manner in which the Appellate Bench of the Tribunal examined the personal history of the appellant. " The High Court directed that the Bench which heard and disposed of the appeal should state : " (a) Whether the assessee was examined at all by the App....