Warner Lambert Co. Ltd. vs Commissioner Of Income-Tax on 12 June, 1998
11. This court in the case of CIT v. C. N. Patuck [1969] 71 ITR 713, has held that a charge was created for payment of monthly sums in favour of the daughters of the assessee. This court was dealing with a case, where there was a compromise decree for dissolution of marriage between the assessee and his wife. In the said decree, the assessee took responsibility
to pay monthly sums to his daughters. After the decree a tripartite agreement was entered into between the assessee, his daughters and the partners of the partnership firm in which the assessee was one of the partners, to pay a fixed sum to the daughters out of the assessee's share of profit in the partnership firm. As a result of the compromise decree in the suit for dissolution of marriage and in view of the tripartite agreement between the assessee, his daughters and the partners, this court came to the conclusion that the assessee created a charge in favour of his daughters and because of an overriding title, money paid to the daughters ceased to be the remuneration and/or profit of the assessee, hence, it could not be taxed in his hands. Thus on the facts of the said case, this court came to the conclusion that the income was diverted at source by an overriding title.