KARTAR SINGH Vs. COMMISSIONER OF INCOME-TAX

JUDGEMENT

(1.) FOR the assessment year 1959-60, the Income-tax Officer assessed the income of the assessee at Rs. 99,494. The assessee's appeal to the Appellate Assistant Commissioner was dismissed. The Income-tax Appellate Tribunal, however, set aside the order of assessment and remanded the matter back to the Income-tax Officer to estimate the income bearing in mind the value of the assets and liabilities at the commencement of the previous year and their value at the end of the previous year. After remand, the Income-tax Officer, while holding that the income of the assessee from its business of plying of trucks was Rs. 99,494, made an addition of a sum of Rs. 54,075, as income from "unexplained investment". The Appellate Assistant Commissioner confirmed the order of the Income-tax Officer and so also the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal. At the instance of the assessee, the following two questions have been referred to us for our decision:

(2.) IT is not necessary for us to enter into a detailed discussion of the questions raised in view of the fact that the addition of Rs. 54,075 made by the Income-tax Officer was from a new source and this he was not competent to do. In Sri Gajalakshmi Ginning Factory Ltd. v. Commissioner of Income-tax [1952] 22 ITR 502 (Mad), the learned judges observed that it would not be open to the Appellate Assistant Commissioner to introduce into the assessment new sources as his power of enhancement was restricted only to the income which was the subject-matter of consideration for purposes of assessment by the Income-tax Officer.