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Bench S.C. Agrawal and G.B. Pattanaik JJ.
Decided 4 April 1997

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the approach of the Gujarat High Court in Goswami Brijratanlalji Mehraj v.

Judgment, page 6

From the headnote

JUDGMENT: J U M N T S. . AGRAWAL, J. These appeals by the assessee raise the question whether the provisions of Section 20 of the Wealth Tax Act, 1957 (hereinafter referred to as ’the Act’) can be applied to a case where the partition in the Hindu undivided family in accordance with the principles of Hindu Law taken place before the commencement of the Act. The assessee was a Hindu joint family constituted by T. Nagapotha Rao and his three sons, Sitarama Rao, Raja, Raja and Satyanarayana Murthi.…

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