Wns Global Services P.Ltd, Mumbai vs Ito 10(2)(4), Mumbai on 16 January, 2019
20. Drawing support from the analysis so done by the Coordinate
Bench of various authorities on the subject, with which we find no
reason but to follow and endorse, we agree with the contention
advanced by the ld. DR that in the instant case, the matter is squarely
covered against the assessee by the series of decisions of Hon'ble
Supreme Court in case of Tuticorin Alkali Chemicals & Fertilizers Ltd.,
Bokara Steel Ltd. as well as Bongaigaon Refinery and Petrochemicals
Ltd. In the instant case, the assessee company has invested borrowed
funds, available during the period starting disbursement and availability
of funds, and actual utilization for the purposes the funds were
borrowed, and therefore surplus in the intervening period, in short term
interest bearing deposits with the bank. There is nothing on record to
suggest that the assessee company was bound to utilize the interest so
earned on such short term deposits to adjust against the interest paid
on borrowed capital and there were any end-use restrictions and it was
therefore free to use the interest income in any manner it liked and
therefore interest earned by investing borrowed capital in short term
deposit is an independent source of income not in any manner
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connected with construction activities which rightly been brought to tax
as income under the head "income from other sources".