M.WAHAJUDDIN
Rajendra Prasad Agarwal – Appellant
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Income-Tax Officer, 'B' Ward – Respondent
M. WAHAJUDDIN, J.
1. THIS application has been moved by the three applicants, namely, Rajendra Prasad Agarwal, Ayodhya Prasad and Ram Autar, under Section 482, Cr. PC, praying that the Criminal Case No. 2430 of 1980. (State through Sri B.K. Srivastava, Income-tax Officer, 'B' Ward, Varanasi v. Rajendra Prasad Agarwal), pending in the court of the Chief judicial Magistrate, Varanasi, may be quashed.
2. A number of grounds were taken but during the arguments, I have been addressed only on one point which concerns applicants Nos. 2 and 3. Admittedly, there was a discrepancy of Rs. 18,003 in the original return for the assessment year 1973-74 submitted on 30th July, 1973, and the revised statement of return submitted much later on September 5, 1975. Prima facie, a wrong statement was submitted earlier and it was submitted that this was due to a bona fide mistake in calculation. Whether the account was delivered knowing or believing it to be false or not believing it to be true as to attract one of the ingredients of Section 277, I.T. Act, is a question of fact which could be heard and disposed of in the light of evidence and rightly so, for that reason, I have not been addressed
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