Farrukhabad Gramin Bank vs Assistant Commissioner Of Income Tax on 23 February, 2006
8.23 Attention was also invited to CIT v. Bangalore District Central Cooperative Bank Ltd. (supra) referring to paper book p. 23, which contains the said judgment from pp. 20 to 33 as reported in (1998) 148 CTR (SC) 226 : (1988) 99 Taxman 404 (SC) (supra) wherein at p. 407 of the said judgment (relevant p. 23 of the paper book) it was submitted that this judgment again was in the context of Sections 24 and 56 of the Banking Regulation Act, 1949 as well as Section 57(2) of the Karnataka Co-operative Society Act, 1959 and Rule 23(3) of the Karnataka Co-operative Societies Rules, 1960 and in the context of these specific Acts/Rules their Lordships of Supreme Court held "on the fact situation of the case, we do not find any justification to interfere with the conclusions of the High Court. The appeals suffer dismissal. There will be no order as to costs." It was further highlighted by the learned Departmental Representative that even in the said case, the arguments on behalf of the assessees co-operative central bank was that income of the co-operative society carrying on business of banking was attributable to the said activities and there was a finding of fact recorded by the Tribunal therein that the interest income is attributable to the business of the assessee, which finding, it was submitted, had not been challenged on the factual basis by the Revenue and no material as such had been placed before their Lordships of Hon'ble Supreme Court to upset the conclusions of the High Court. Accordingly, on account of these specific facts and different provisions of the State Co-operative Societies Acts and Rules, the appeal of the Revenue was dismissed.