Shanti Ramanand Sagar And Others v. CIT (2018) 402 ITR 245/ 161 DTR 129/ 300 CTR 132 (Bom) HC)

S. 271(1)(c) : Penalty – Concealment –Inaccurate particulars – Penalty is a civil liability – Concealment need not be wilful- Non disclosure of entire receipt from transaction was held to be liable to penalty .

Answering the reference against the assessee the Court held that ; the assessee, as a matter of record, had only disclosed part of the income derived from the sale of the picture to Prakash Pictures and the balance was not declared, but came to be returned in the subsequent assessment years was admitted. The argument that the nature of the transaction was not known had been rejected by two concurrent findings which were not perverse. The Tribunal found that the entire receipts were not included for that would have resulted in the assessee paying tax. The attempt was to avoid the liability. The levy of penalty was justified.( AY. 1977-78)