(ii) If by an agreement, express or implied, between the creditor A and the debtor or by request, express or implied, by the crediior, the debtor is authorised to pay the debt by a cheque and to send the cheque to the creditor by post, the po•t office is the agent of the creditor to receive tlte cheque and the creditor receives payment as soon as the cheque is posted to him. (656 G] Commissioner of Income-tax v. Mis. Ogale Glass Works Ltd., (1955) I S.C.R. 185, Jagdish Mills Ltd. v. The Commissioner of Income-tax, B [1960) I S.C.R. 236, Norman v. Ricketts, ( 1886) 3 Times Law Reports 182 and Thairlwa/l v. The Great Northern Railway, [1910) 2 K.B. 509, relied on. (iii) In the in.slant case cl. 9 of the terms and conditions of the contract read with the prescribed form of the bills and the instructions regarding payment showed that the parties had agreed that the assessee would submit to the Government of India, Department of Supply, New c Delhi, bills in the prescribed form requesting payment of the price of the supplies by cheques together with signed receipts and the Government of India would pay the price by crossed cheques drawn in favour of the assessee. Having regard to the fact that the assessee. was at Indore and the Supply Department of the Government of India was at New Delhi, the parties must have intended that the Government would send till> cheques to the assessee by post from New Delhi, and this inference was supported by the fact the cheques used to be sent to the assessee by D post. In the circumstances there was an implied agreement between the parties that the Government of India would send the cheques by post. The Government of India was entitled to ignore the subsequ0'1t request of the assessee fur cheques on an Indore bank and the asscssce recei~ed payment of the price as and when the Cbe<Jues on the Reserve Bank of India Bombay, were posted in British India in accordance with the contract. (657 D; 658 A] Thalrlwall v. The Great Narthern Railway, (1910) 2 K.B. 509 and • Commissioner of Income-tax v. Patney cl Co. (1959) 36 I.T.R. 488, referred to. On the above view the profits in respect of the sales were taxable tinders. 4(l)(a) of the Indian Income-tax Act, 1922. Crvru APPELLATE JURISDICTION: Civil Appeals Nos. 10061011 of 1963. F Appeal from the judgment and order dated September 25, 1959 of the Bombay High Court in Income-tax Reference No. 36 of 1955. G. S. Pathak, B. Dutta, R. J. Ko/ah and J.B. Dadachanji, for the appellant. G Niren De, Addi. Solicitur-General, Gopal Singh and R. N. Sachthey, for the respondent.