Unexplained cash credit U/s. 68 cannot be treated as business income & not eligible for Section 80P Deduction

ITO Vs M/s. Mundela Service Co-operative Bank Ltd. (ITAT Cochin) With regard to non granting of deduction u/s. 80P(2) of the Act, treating the unexplained credits as ‘income from other sources’, this issue was considered by the Jurisdictional High Court in the case of Kerala Sponge Iron Ltd., 79 taxmann.com/379 ITR 330 wherein ‘the income had been treated as unexplained cash credit under section 68. Once it was so done for the purpose of set off or any other purpose, the unexplained income could not be treated as business income under any one of the heads provided under section 14 in...