Devasan Investments Pvt. Ltd., New ... vs Department Of Income Tax
27. Further, the Department has also placed reliance on "CIT/WT v. P.
Manonmani"(supra). Therein, the Hon'ble Madras High Court held that
while ascertaining the true scope of a provision in a statute, attention must
necessarily be paid not only to the text, viz., the words employed in the
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relevant provisions, but also to the context. Referring to this decision, the
AO has observed that the assessee company has wrongly interpreted the
meaning of "Investment and Capital Assets" and used it for its benefit to
deflate its tax liability; and that it was not actually an investment, but a
wrong interpretation adopted by the assessee. This, however, as deliberated
upon hereinabove, has not been found to be the case. To reiterate, the
assessee has all through maintained that the shares held by it were held by
way of investment. They were shown as such in its balance sheet. The
profit thereon was offered under the head "capital gain". The AO has failed
to make out the case as to how the assessee has resorted to a wrong
interpretation and that it was not actually an investment.