Commissioner Of Income-Tax vs Shyam Narain Mehrotra on 7 February, 1978
In the case of Rajnit Prasad Singh v. CIT [1929] 4 ITC 264 (Pat) [FB] at page 278, Mr. Justice Das quoting the aforesaid observations stated that though there was a presumption that the same sum should not be assessed twice on the same person yet there was no presumption that because a person has been assessed under the one statute, he was immune from taxation under another statute. Therefore, the fact that the assessee had suffered taxation under the G.T. Act, 1958, in respect of the transaction in question, does not, in our opinion, affect the question though we agree with the Tribunal that it causes a certain amount of hardship and perhaps in an appropriate case it may be that the Legislature should give some relief, as has been done in the case of the Estate Duty Act under Sections 50A and 50B of the said Act and other Acts.