{"id":153369,"date":"1989-08-21T00:00:00","date_gmt":"1989-08-20T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/commissioner-of-income-tax-vs-smt-bibi-zaibunnisa-on-21-august-1989"},"modified":"2019-01-13T11:50:09","modified_gmt":"2019-01-13T06:20:09","slug":"commissioner-of-income-tax-vs-smt-bibi-zaibunnisa-on-21-august-1989","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/commissioner-of-income-tax-vs-smt-bibi-zaibunnisa-on-21-august-1989","title":{"rendered":"Commissioner Of Income-Tax vs Smt. Bibi Zaibunnisa on 21 August, 1989"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Patna High Court<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Commissioner Of Income-Tax vs Smt. Bibi Zaibunnisa on 21 August, 1989<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 1990 185 ITR 284 Patna<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: U Sinha, S Mookherji<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>JUDGMENT<\/p>\n<p> 1. This is a reference under Section 256(2) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (hereinafter to be referred to as &#8220;the Act&#8221;), which relates to the assessment year 1972-73. The questions referred to us for our opinion are as follows :\n<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;1. Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the Tribunal has rightly held that the Commissioner of Income-tax acting under Section 263(1) of the Income-tax Act, 1901, could not interfere with an order of assessment made under Section 1-13(1) in pursuance of the &#8216;scheme to help the new taxpayers under the small income group&#8217; launched by the Government ?\n<\/p>\n<p>2. Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the Tribunal has rightly cancelled the order passed by the Commissioner of Income-tax under Section 263(1) of the Income-tax Act, 1961, For the assessment year 1972-73 ?&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>2. The assessee was assessed in terms of a scheme brought out by the Central Board of Direct Taxes. The scheme launched by the Government<br \/>\nwas meant to help new taxpayers under the small income group. In regard to ladies and minors, however, it had been directed in the scheme that the assessment was to be made in terms of Section 143 of the Act. The assessee was assessed in a summary manner by the Income-tax Officer in terms of the scheme. Later, the Commissioner of Income-tax cancelled the assessment order in terms of Section 263(1) of the Act. The assessee moved the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal against the cancellation order passed by the Commissioner of Income-tax. The Tribunal set aside the order of the Commissioner holding that the Commissioner had no jurisdiction to act in terms of Section 263(1) of the Act on the facts and in the circumstances of that case. Similar questions fell for consideration before us in several references. The law laid down by this court in this behalf is to be found in the case of CIT v. Pushpa Devi [1987] 164 ITR 639, CIT v. Rambha Devi [1987] 164 ITR 658 and CIT v. Smt. Pushpa Devi [1988] 173 ITR 445. In circumstances similar to those of the present case, we have held that the Commissioner Income-tax was fully justified in acting in terms of Section 263(1) of the Act. The present case also stands on the same footing.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. We, therefore, hold, that the Tribunal was not right in holding that the Commissioner of Income-tax, acting under Section 263(1) of the Act, could not interfere in the matter of assessment passed by the Income-tax Officer. In that view of the matter, both the questions referred to us are answered in the negative, in favour of the Revenue and against the assessee, and the reference is answered accordingly. However, there will be no order as to costs.\n<\/p>\n<p>4. Let a copy of this order be transmitted to the Assistant Registrar, Income-tax Appellate Tribunal, Patna, in terms of Section 260 of the Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Patna High Court Commissioner Of Income-Tax vs Smt. Bibi Zaibunnisa on 21 August, 1989 Equivalent citations: 1990 185 ITR 284 Patna Bench: U Sinha, S Mookherji JUDGMENT 1. This is a reference under Section 256(2) of the Income-tax Act, 1961 (hereinafter to be referred to as &#8220;the Act&#8221;), which relates to the assessment year 1972-73. 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