Dawjee Dadabhoy & Co. vs S.P. Jain And Anr. on 4 December, 1956
-- recourse cannot be had to Section 263(1) of the Act.
There can be no doubt that the provision cannot be invoked
to correct each and every type of mistake or error committed
by the Assessing Officer; it is only when an order is
erroneous that the section will be attracted. An incorrect
assumption of facts or an incorrect application of law will
satisfy the requirement of the order being erroneous. In
the same category fall orders passed without applying the
principles of natural justice or without application of
mind. The phrase prejudicial to the interests of the
revenue is not an expression of art and is not defined in
the Act. Understood in its ordinary meaning it is of wide
import and is not confined to loss of tax. The High Court
of Calcutta in Dawjee Dadabhoy & Co. Vs. S.P. Jain and
Another [31 ITR 872], the High Court of Karnataka in
Commissioner of Income- tax, Mysore Vs. T. Narayana Pai
[98 ITR 422], the High Court of Bombay in Commissioner of
Income-tax Vs. Gabriel India Ltd. [203 ITR 108] and the
High Court of Gujarat in Commissioner of Income-tax Vs.
Smt. Minalben S. Parikh [215 ITR 81] treated loss of tax
as prejudicial to the interests of the revenue.