Raja Bejoy Singh Dudhuria vs The Commissioner Of Income-Tax on 10 March, 1932
This decision was cited as in that judgment, a number of reported decisions on the question of diversion of income by overriding title starting from Raja Bijoy Singh Dudhuria v. CIT [1933] 1 ITR 1 35 (PC) Raja Bijoy Singh Dudhuria v. CIT [1933] 1 ITR 1 35 (PC) were considered. Learned advocate for the assessee contended on the other hand that on a proper construction of the agreements between the assessee and its foreign buyers, it would be apparent that the amounts of excise duty rebate and customs duty drawbacks at no time became or could be deemed to be the income of the assessee. Under the said agreements, the assessee could only collect and receive the amounts of rebate and drawback on behalf of its foreign buyers and it was specifically provided in the agreements that the same would be refunded to the foreign buyers after the permission of the Reserve Bank was obtained. The said amounts, it was contended, were diverted at source by an overriding title in favour of the foreign buyers who owned the said amounts under the agreements.