Case: Commissioner of Income Tax Vs. United Trading and Construction Company

This appeal is preferred against the order of the Delhi High Court rejecting the application of the Revenue filed under section 256(2) of theAct, 1961. The question which the Revenue wanted to be referred by the Tribunal reads thuson the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the Tribunal was legally correct in holding that the cash credit amounting to Rs. 25, 000 stood explained in view of the disclosure made by the creditors under section 24 of the Finance (No. 2) Act of 1965 ?Is the order of theAppellate Tribunal not vitiated in view of the provisions of section 68 of theAct, 1961 ?" *

Reasoning: It is now brought to our notice that this very question has since been decided by this court in ITO v. Rattan Lal 1984 (145) ITR 183.  In the said decision it has been held that the immunity enjoyed by a declarant under section 24 of the Finance (No. 2) Act, 1965, under the Voluntary Disclosure Scheme is confined to the declarant alone and is not extended to the assessment of a third party assessee in relation to the income disclosed by the declarant. It was further held that there is nothing in section 24 of the Finance (No. 2) Act which prevents theOfficer, if he is not satisfied with the explanation of the assessee about the genuineness of sources of amounts found credited in his books to add them to the assessees income amount in spite of these having already been made theof the declaration made by the depositors/creditors. He is entitled to include them as income of the assessee from undisclosed sources.