Exemption cannot be denied merely because Assessee has not claimed the same

Manohar Reddy Basani Vs ITO (ITAT Hyderabad)

Assessing Officer having concluded that the assessee having neither disclosed the capital gains in the return of income nor claimed any deduction u/s 54F of the Act, the assessee is not entitled to get any deduction u/s 54F, in the same way he should not have added the capital gains to the income of the assessee since there was no disclosure of the same in the return of income. At any rate, the first appellate authority ought to have considered the issue on merits since the decision of the Supreme Court in th

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