Commissioner Of Income-Tax vs Partabmull Rameshwar on 26 February, 1975
In 1943, the income-tax authorities sought to reassess, under Section 34 of the Indian Income-tax Act, 1922, those interests as his income of the assessment year 1939-40 and strong reliance was placed on behalf of the revenue authorities on the case of Commissioner of Income-tax v. Maharajadhiraja Kameshwar Singh of Darbhanga [1933] 1 ITR 94 (PC) in support of such reassessment, but Harries C.J. at page 304 of [1951] 20 ITR 293 (Cal) of the report overruled such contention in the following terms :