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Maternity is a natural process and could not be termed as illness or disease
Case Law Details
- Case Name
- D.C.I.T. Vs Nehru Prasutika Asptal Samiti (ITAT Agra)
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- Related Assessment Year
- 2009- 10
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The AO noted in the assessment order that the assessee society is running maternity hospital and all services pertaining to maternity only. Maternity is a natural process and could not be termed as illness or disease. Giving birth and at that time hospital providing services for delivery could not be said to be providing any treatment for illness or mental defectiveness.
Further in absence of any details or evidences available on record, we do not find it to be a fit case for interference and the ld. CIT(A) was therefore justified in holding that the ingredients of above secti...
What a bliss ful ignorance! The section provides interalia “suffering from illness or mental defectiveness or for the reception and treatment of persons during convalescence or of persons requiring medical attention or rehabilitation”. Child birth is in hospital to correct the mistakes of the nature. If the nature does not correctly help in child birth then? Can the last limb “persons requiring medical attention and rehabilitation” be ignored as surplus language? With all respects the judgment is not correct appreciation.
AP Agrawal
Retd. Member
Delhi Sales Tax Appellate Tribunal
Now a days, not all the pregnancy are natural process. Today IVF techniques also present. We cant say it is all natural process.
It is a bad order in the modern era. Nowadays children are born in hospitals with substantial care of the doctors. still the child mortality has not come down. when a pregnant mother is admitted, medicines are administered from the moment of admission till discharge. If you call it a natural process, why hospital and doctors should attend the mother and child. Because of such bad and illogical judgementa, litigations are continuing and mounting pressures on the Courts. Some disqualifying procedures should be adopted for such repeated and casual orders.
In my personal opinion, the Hob’ble Tribunal need to recosider its order. Before xoming to conclusion the Tribubal should have taken expert opinion of medical professionals. During midwifes days the mothers were healthy enough to face risks involved during delivery to a certain extent.. In hospitals serious cases/emergency cases can be tackled successfully. Even one life saved in hospital it is a service. Need the order to be recosidered.