Commissioner Of Income-Tax vs Tamil Nadu Heat Treatment And Fetting ... on 24 February, 1998
Similarly in the case of CIT v.
Tamil Nadu Heat Treatment and Fetting Services (P) Ltd. (No. 1)
[1999] 238 ITR 529 (Mad), it was held that the process of heat
treatment to crankshaft, etc., were absolutely essential for
rendering it marketable. Automobile parts, as crankshafts, need to
be subjected to heat treatment to increase the wear and tear
resistance to remove the inordinate stress and increased tensile
strength. The raw untreated crankshafts and the like can never be
used in an automobile industry. Thus, in the crankshafts subjected
to the process of heat treatment, etc., a qualitative change is
effected, to be fit for use in automobiles, although there is no
physical change in them. In such state of affairs, it cannot at all be
stated that the crankshaft, subjected to heat treatment, etc., cannot
at all change the status of new products of different quality for a
different purpose altogether. In this view of the matter, the
activities of the assessee in relation to raw or untreated crankshafts
being subjected to heat treatment, etc., is definitely a
"manufacturing activity" entitling it to claim "investment
allowance" under section 32A."