Commissioner Of Income-Tax, Madras vs Kasturi Estates (P.) Ltd. on 21 October, 1965
In the case also, the assessee has not purchased the land in question, but has got the same as ancestral land on partition of the larger HUF. Applying the ratio of the said decision to the facts of the case on hand, the assessee has sold his land in the case before us only for a consideration of Rs. 75,000 per acre, to Shri Gopala Krishna and it is the said Gopala Krishna, who sold the land in question after arranging necessary improvements and layout, in terms of plots of various sizes for higher price, and in that context, it is the said Gopala Krishna, who can be said to have engaged in an adventure in the nature of trade by purchasing the land from the assessee and after improvements and lay out, selling the same in the form of plots to various purchasers.