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SC On Levy of Surcharge U/s 113 Proviso In Search Cases
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- CIT Vs Vatika Township (Supreme Court of India)
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- Supreme Court of India
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Court reiterated that if a proviso is clarificatory and curative in nature, it should be given a retrospective operation. The Court in para 33 held as under:-
“If a legislation confers a benefit on some persons but without inflicting a corresponding detriment on some other person or on the public generally and where to confer such benefit appears to have been the legislators object, then the presumption would be that such a legislation, giving it a purposive construction, would warrant it to be given a retrospective effect. This exactly is the justification to treat procedur...
