Tea Estate India (P) Ltd vs Commissioner Of Income-Tax on 26 April, 1976
3. The assessee is manufacturer of power cables claimed amount of Rs. 2,37,43,429/- as bad debts. During assessment proceedings the assessee was asked to justify and to produce the evidence to prove that the debts have indeed gone bad and irrecoverable. The assessee in its reply claimed, "that the only requirement of law was that bad debts were allowable in the year in which the amount was written off. The amount has been written -of the current year and the bad debts were duly approved by the Board of the Company." The assessee further claimed that the bad debts pertains to government parties like HSEB, GEB, HPSEB and various other -Electricity Bards and Power Plants. The Assessing Officer placed reliance upon the decision in the case of Associated Banking corporation of India Ltd v. CIT [1965] 56 ITR 1 (SC) and disallowed the claim of debts and made the addition of Rs. 2,37,43,429/- to the total income of the assessee.