COMMISSIONER OF INCOME TAX Vs. STANDARD PHARMACEUTICAL LTD

JUDGEMENT

(1.) The Commissioner, West Bengal-III, seeks a certificate in this application that the judgment and order of this court dated September 2, 1985, involves substantial questions of law and is a fit case for appeal to the Supreme Court. The substantial questions which are stated to arise from the judgment are as follows :

(2.) So far as question No. 1 is concerned, it is stated that there is a difference of view between this court and the Bombay High Court. We are unable to accept this contention of the applicant. We have considered the decision of the Bombay High Court in the case of CIT v. Century Spg. and Mfg. Co. Ltd. [1978] 111 ITR 6. In the said case, the question which arose was in respect of issue of bonus shares and not in respect of debentures and it was held by this court in the case of the same assessee in CIT v. Standard Pharmaceuticals Ltd. [1982] 136 ITR 98 that the facts before the Bombay High Court were substantially different from the facts in the case of the assessee and that the ratio of the decision of the Bombay High Court would have no application to the facts in the case before this court.

(3.) Even otherwise, the question involves Clause (iv) of Rule 1 of the Second Schedule to the Companies (Profits) Surtax Act, 1964, which has since been omitted by the Finance Act, 1976, with effect from April 1, 1977. We are unable to accept the contention of the Revenue that the said question remains a substantial question of law which needs to be considered by the Supreme Court.