Addanki Narayanappa & Anr vs Bhaskara Krishtappa And 13 Ors on 21 January, 1966
4. The contention on behalf of the department is this that the deduction or exemption under section 5(1)(iv-a) can be given only when the value of agricultural land belonging to the assessee is included in the net wealth and in the instant case what is included is only the value of the interest of the assessee in a firm which includes movable and immovable properties and not the value of agricultural land belonging to the assessee as such and accordingly the view taken by the Tribunal is not correct. It is further asserted that the immovable property, though it might have belonged to the assessee at one time, had become the partnership property and by virtue of a partnership having been constituted the proprietary right of the assessee had been transformed into a contractual right and the right she had in the partnership firm was not immovable property but movable property and, therefore, it could not be said that any agricultural land belonged to her. Reliance has been placed in this behalf on the ruling of the Supreme Court in Addanki Narayanappa v. Bhaskara Krishnappa, , and three other cases, viz., (Commissioner of Income-tax v. Juggilal Kamlapat), (Commissioner of Income-tax v. Dewas Cine Corporation) and the decision if the High Court of Madras [1976] 104 ITR 608 (Purushothamdas Gocooldas v. Commissioner of Wealth-tax).