Commissioner Of Income-Tax Bombay ... vs N.U.C. Private Ltd. on 21 April, 1980
But to say that the end product, the dam, is an article is
to be unfaithful to the normal connotation of the word. A
dam is constructed; it is not manufactured or produced. The
expressions "manufacture" and "produce" are normally
associated with moveables articles and goods, big and small
but they are never employed to denote the construction
activity of the nature involved in the construction of a dam
or for that matter a bridge, a road or a building. The
decisions of the Bombay High Court in CIT v. N. U. C. Pvt.
Ltd. I and in CIT v. Shah Construction Co. Ltd.2 relied
upon by Shri Murti are no doubt not decisions rendered under
Section 80-HH or under Section 84 they arose under the
relevant Finance Acts, the question being whether the
assessees were industrial companies they do contain
observations which tend to support the stand of the Revenue.