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Shankar Dalal & Ors v. CIT ( 2017) 294 CTR 107 / 150 DTR 197 (Bom.) (HC)

S.2(14)(iii): Capital asset-Agricultural land-Sale of agricultural land to non –agriculturist cannot be the ground to deny the exemption- Capital gains cannot be chargeable to tax.[S. 45, Goa, Daman and Diu Land Revenue Code, 1968 , S. 2(1), 105]

Common Cause (A Registered Society) v. UOI ( 2017) 394 ITR 220 (SC)

S. 2(12A) : Books of accounts – Entries in loose papers/ sheets are irrelevant and inadmissible as evidence- Offences and prosecution- Settlement commission. [S. 132, 143(3), 245D, Evidence Act, S.34]

Siddharth Mehta v. UOI (2017) 393 ITR 312 / 244 Taxman 289/ 148 DTR 248/ 293 CTR 365 (SC)

S. 199A : Pradhan Mantri Garib Kalyan Yojna, 2016- Legislative powers- Judicial review – Court declined to enter into or encroach upon policy making arena and suggest a different policy on ground that it was not within domain of Court- There is a distinction between assailment of the constitutional validity of a policy and conception of framing of a better policy. [S. 199E, 199FArt. 32 ]