Sri Vishnu Vilas Souharda Pattina ... vs Income Tax Officer, Ward-1 & Tps, , ... on 31 December, 2025
As argued by the Ld.AR, the
Hon'ble Jurisdictional High Court in the case of Tumkur Merchants
Souharda Credit Co-operative Ltd. vs. ITO reported in (2015) 55
taxmann.com 447 (Karnataka) had also considered the Hon'ble Supreme
Court judgment relied on by the Ld.PCIT and differentiated the said
judgment and held that the law laid down by the Hon'ble Supreme Court
would not be applicable to the facts of the present case. Therefore, the
reliance made by the Ld.PCIT on the Hon'ble Supreme Court judgment to
revise the order of the AO is not correct. We have also considered the facts
involved in the present case and also the details furnished by the assessee
to the show cause notice issued u/s. 263, which was extracted in the earlier
paragraphs, the assessee had an obligation to make short term deposits
under the provisions of the Karnataka Souharda Sahakari Act, 1997. If the
assessee had not followed the said mandate, then the authority could take
action on the society and even the registration could have been cancelled by
the authority. In such circumstances only, the assessee had deposited the
said amounts and earned the interest income out of the said deposits. By
considering the Division Bench judgment of the Hon'ble Jurisdictional High
Court in the case of Tumkur Merchants Souharda Credit Co-operative Ltd.