Section 54F residential-house ownership excludes company-owned property from a director's personal property count, preserving deduction eligibility.

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....Section 54F eligibility depends on residential houses owned by the assessee personally. A residential property owned by a company remains the company's asset and is not treated as owned by its director. Where the assessee also jointly owns a property with a spouse, counting that property still leaves only one residential house other than the property in which the qualifying investment is made. The disqualifying condition for ownership of more than one such house therefore does not apply, and the section 54F deduction remains available.....