James Finlay & Co. vs Commissioner Of Income-Tax on 22 December, 1980
The Supreme Court, after setting out the relevant passage from the decision in the case of CIT v. Shoorji Vallabhdas & Co. Ltd. , referred to the decision in the case of Morvi Industries Ltd. v. CIT , and observed that the real question for decision was whether the income had really accrued or not. It was not a hypothetical accrual of the income that had got to be taken into account but the real accrual of the income. If this concept of the real accrual of income in law and the principle on which the theory of accrual is based were to be taken into account, then, in the light of the facts of this case, where we are dealing with the question of interest, which had not to take into account anything to be done or happening subsequent to the closing of the year of account and the accrual was not dependent on any subsequent making up of the accounts or the company's borrowing acts, then the subsequent conduct, subsequent to the year in which income accrued, cannot, in our opinion, be of any help to the assessee.