Produce Exchange Corporation Ltd vs Commissioner Of Income Tax on 27 April, 1970
"That it could not be disputed that the business organisation, administration and fund of both the units of the assessee, namely, the unit at Baroda and the unit at Bangalore, were common. There was one company which controlled the administration of both the units, which supplied the staff to both the units and which managed the whole of the business organisation of both the units. The production of both the units was considered the production of the assessee-company itself. In the application for the proposed establishment of the new unit at Bangalore made by the assessee to the Government of India on December 8, 1959, and in the application for licence submitted by the assessee to the Government, it was stated that the new unit at Bangalore was nothing but an expansion of the existing business. Thus, there was complete interconnection, interlacing and interdependence of both the units, which is the test laid down for determining whether two lines of businesses constitute the 'same business' within the meaning of Section 24(2), by the Supreme Court in the case of CIT v. Prithvi Insurance Co. Ltd., and again approved by the Supreme Court in Produce Exchange Corporation Ltd. v. CIT, ."