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April 19, 2021 Archives

Writ Petition Filed Before the Madras High Court To Quash the Order Passed by the Deputy Commissioner of Income Tax As Illegal

The writ petitions filed by the petitioner, B. Kubendran against the file of the Deputy Commissioner of Income Tax, Central Circle, the respondent; challenges six orders of assessment passed in terms of the provisions of the Income Tax Act, 1961. The years in question are from 2012 to 2018. For argument and since the facts involved are slightly different, the learned counsel for the petitioner splits the impugned orders into two batches, are 2012-13, 2014-15 and 2017-18 (the batch I) and 2015-16, 2016-17 (batch II).

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The Bhoodan Movement

Pyramid-like hierarchy (from the landless masses at the bottom to the privileged people at the top) or conical-economic-system prevents any incentives from government programmes from reaching the landless and destitute peasants (more than 50 per cent of the agricultural labour households were landless in 1950-51 and their number was increased to 57 per cent in 1956-57). 

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