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Subbayya Chettiar v. Commissioner of Income-tax . In that case the karta of the Hindu undivided family was living in Ceylon. He had property ... question arose, which the Supreme Court had to consider, whether the karta controlled and managed the affairs of the Hindu undivided family within the taxable

speaking, the question resolves itself into this. When a father or a karta of a Joint Hindu family unauthorlsedly alienates Joint family property ... original principle of Hindu law was that a father or a karta could alienate joint family property only for legal necessity. If the alienation

Hindu family was represented in the partnership by Charandas Haridas as the karta. What was contended before the department was that by a memorandum executed