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JUDGMENT Sriramulu, J.-At the instance of the Commissioner of Income-tax, Andhra Pradesh, Hyderabad, the following two questions of law have been referred to this court for our decision, under section 66(1) of the Indian Income-tax Act of 1922, by the Hyderabad Bench of the Income-tax Appellate Tribunal: "(1)Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the assessments made by the Income-tax Officer on the Hindu undivided family of Sri Kapoorchand Shrimal, for the years under reference, without passing an order under section 25A, were valid in law? (2)Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the sum of Rs. 42,009 was a trading loss deductible in the assessment for the year 1958-59?" The material facts, so far as they are relevant for answering the above questions, may briefly be stated. The assessment years concerned are 1955-56, 1957-58 to 1961-62, the relevant accounting years being the years ending Deepavali except for the cloth business. The assessee is a Hindu undivided family named "Kapoorchand Shrimal". In the course of the assessments for these years, by its letters dated October 10, 1960, January 16, 1961, and March 11, 1962, the assessee brought to the notice of the Income-tax Officer that all the movable and immovable properties of the Hindu undivided family were partitioned by metes and bounds on July 10, 1960, and the Hindu undivided family had become disrupted and extinct and requested him to pass an order recording, complete partition under section 25A of the Indian Income-tax Act, 1922 (hereinafter called "the Act"). In his letter dated March 17, 1962, the Income-tax Officer acknowledged receipt of the assessee's letter dated March 11, 1962, on March 12, 1962, and intimated the assessee that the matter was receiving his attention and that it would be disposed of in accordance with law. In their letter dated March 21, 1962, the assessee's chartered accountants, M/s. S.G. Dastagir & Company, invited the attention of the Income-tax Officer to the earlier letters and raised a contention that an order under section 25A has to be passed before the completion of the assessment for the year 1957-58, and that the…

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