United Cotton Factory – Appellant
Versus
Commissioner of Income-Tax – Respondent
JUDGMENT
1. At the instance of Messrs. S. A. Rahim Maula Bakhsh Muhammad Sharif, assessee, the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal has, under section 66(1) of the Income-tax Act, referred the following question of law to this Cour :
"Whether in the circumstances of the case, the application of the assessee firm for registration under section 26A was rightly refused on the ground that the shares of the individual partners constituting the assessee firm were not specified in the instrument of partnership dated the 10th of March, 1951, which was sought to be registere ?"
2. According to the statement of the case there is no controversy about the facts giving rise to this reference. On the 10th of March, 1951, the firm S. A. Rahim and Co. and the firm Haji Maula Bakhsh Muhammad Sharif entered into a partnership.
Each component of this larger firm is a partnership constituted under an instrument of partnership specifying the names and the individual shares of the partners in their respective partnerships concerns. In the instrument of partnership of the assessee firm, neither the names nor the individual shares of the partners of the component firms, viz., S. A. Rahim and Co. and Haji Maula Bakhs
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