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Sec. 54(2) of Income tax act, 1961—Capital Gain—the assessee had deposited the entire sale proceeds in his savings bank account maintained with nationalized bank out of which he has constructed his house and the only small lacuna assessee had made is that the assessee though had placed the entire sale proceeds in the nationalized bank he has not transferred the same in the “Capital gain scheme account”, considering these facts of the case, for this small technical lapse of the assessee, the benefit of section 54 should not be denied. Therefore, it was directed to Assessing Officer to grant the benefit of section 54 to the assessee. Section 54 is a beneficial provision and a beneficial interpretation has to be made as far as possible for giving benefit to the assessee — ASSTT. CIT Vs. ARUNACHALAM (JUSTICE)(T.S.) [2020] 78 ITR (TRIB) 290 (ITAT-CHENNAI)