Exemption of gratuity and commuted pension upheld, salary additions deleted and unexplained income tax not applied to those items.

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....Amounts characterized as death cum retirement gratuity and commuted pension were accepted as exempt under the relevant exemption provisions and must be excluded from salary for tax purposes; corresponding additions to salary were deleted. The reliance on a special tax on unexplained income for those salary additions was held inapplicable. A separate addition treating a time deposit as unexplained money was deleted because declared salary and exempt retirement receipts adequately accounted for the deposit and the addition rested on surmise without evidential foundation.....