Retrenchment compensation under BSNL's voluntary retirement scheme was held exempt as a capital receipt.

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....Compensation paid to BSNL employees under the BSNL Voluntary Retirement Scheme, 2019 was treated as retrenchment compensation because the payment arose from a forced workforce reduction under the Government-approved revival plan. Applying its earlier ruling on the same scheme, the ITAT held that the receipt fell under section 10(10B), not section 10(10C), and was a capital receipt exempt from tax. The assessees were therefore entitled to exemption, with directions to file revised computations before the jurisdictional Assessing Officers for consequential verification and refund, if due.....