Bacha F. Guzdar vs Commissioner Of Income-Tax, Bombay on 28 October, 1954
In its decision, the Division Bench had also referred to the decision of the
Constitution Bench of the Supreme Court in Mrs. Bacha F. Guzdar v.
Commissioner of Income Tax: (1955) AIR SC 74, wherein the Supreme
Court had authoritatively held that the identity of the company was not the
same as that of its shareholders and, consequently, the dividends declared by
the company out of agricultural income in the company's hands were not in
the nature of agricultural income in the hands of its shareholders.