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1999 (5) TMI 573

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..... stoms House Agents Licensing Regulations, 1984. Shri Bijoy Kumar Bose is an intervener in the present appeal filed by M/s. B.B. Bose Sons. The brief facts of the case are as under :- 1.1. M/s. B.B. Bose Sons were a Partnership Firm consisting of two partners - Shri Ganesh Chandra Bose (since deceased) and Shri Dinendra Kumar Bose as per registered Partnership Deed dated 1-10-78. Shri Ganesh Chandra Bose was holding 75% shares of the said Partnership Firm. Para 21 of the Partnership Deed provided that on death of Shri Ganesh Chandra Bose, his two sons would be admitted as partners, Shri Bijoy Kumar Bose getting first preference and Shri Sanjoy Kumar along with nephew, Shri Partha Sarathi Bose, to be considered later on. The said Firm w .....

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..... y adjudicated by the Commissioner of Customs, Calcutta. It was held by the Commissioner that the amended deed of April, 1996 was a tampered document and cannot be accepted as a genuine one. Accordingly, C.H.A. Licence of M/s. B.B. Bose Sons was suspended. 1.3. As regards the claim of Shri Bijoy Kumar Bose, Commissioner directed him to submit a re-constituted Partnership Deed as per the provisions of the Partnership Deed of 1978 which shall be duly considered by the Department as per the provisions of the Regulations. 2. During the course of arguments before us, number of pleas were taken and submissions were made both by the Counsels of Shri Bijoy Kumar Bose and Shri Sanjoy Kumar Bose. The main arguments were as regards tampering the .....

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..... if a firm consists of two partners, death of one of the partners will dissolve the firm despite an agreement to the contrary. This has been the ratio of a number of decisions by various High Courts and the Honourable Supreme Court. One of such decisions of the Apex Court has been reported in 1966 AIR SC 24 in the case of C.I.T. v. Seth Govinda Ram Sugar Mill Ltd. If that be so, then the death of Ganesh Chandra Bose would automatically dissolve the Partnership Firm, M/s. B.B. Bose Sons in spite of there being a clause in the Partnership Firm to induct one of the sons into partnership after the death of Shri Ganesh Chandra Bose. If M/s. B.B. Bose Sons, the Partnership Firm, stands dissolved with the death of one of the partners with effec .....

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