Sumit Bhattacharya vs Asstt. Commissioner Of Income Tax on 3 January, 2008
49. It was thus held by the Hon'ble Supreme Court that once it is concluded that an employment related benefit is in the nature of income and even if it is cannot be taxed under the head income from salaries', such an income can be taxed under the head 'income from other sources'. In other words, merely because an employment related benefit cannot be taxed under the head 'income from salaries', such a benefit cannot go outside the ambit of taxable income. Of course, Their Lordships were dealing with the legal position prior to the five judge bench decision in the case of Justice Deoki Nandan Agarwal's case (supra).