As per the case facts a pharmaceutical company challenged a High Court judgment that upheld the disallowance of expenses incurred for distributing incentives to medical practitioners as 'business expenditure' The ... appeal reached the Supreme Court to determine if such expenses are eligible under tax law especially given that medical practitioners are prohibited from accepting such gifts Finally the Supreme Court dismissed the appeal affirming that the incentives being legally prohibited for recipients by a binding code of conduct also constitute a prohibited expense for the giver thus upholding the disallowance