LAWS(RAJ)-1996-5-60

CONTROLLER OF ESTATE DUTY Vs. RADHEY SHYAM

Decided On May 09, 1996
CONTROLLER OF ESTATE DUTY Appellant
V/S
RADHEY SHYAM Respondents

JUDGEMENT

(1.) THE Income-tax Appellate Tribunal, Jaipur Bench (for short "the Appellate Tribunal"), has referred the following questions to this court for its opinion :

(2.) WHETHER, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the Tribunal was right in law in holding that the cesser of interest deemed to pass on the death of the deceased in respect of the property held by the smaller Hindu undivided family is to be one-half and not full ?

(3.) LEARNED counsel for the Department urged that since the deceased was the sole surviving male member of the smaller Hindu undivided family, he had a one-third share in the properties of the bigger Hindu undivided family. The said one-third share belonging to the deceased would be deemed to pass on his death and, therefore, the provisions of Section 6 would apply to the present case. LEARNED counsel urged that since the smaller Hindu undivided family had only one male member, the interest and share of the smaller Hindu undivided family in the bigger Hindu undivided family would belong to such sole male member, i.e., the deceased, and the entire interest would pass on his death.