Application of retained assets
132B. (1) The assets retained under sub-section (5) of section 132 may be dealt with in the following manner, namely :-
( i) 52aThe amount of the existing liability referred to in clause (iii) of the said sub-section and the amount of the liability determined on completion of the regular assessment or reassessment for all the assessment years relevant to the previous years to which the income referred to in clause (i) of that sub-section relates 50[(including any penalty levied or interest payable in connection with such assessment or reassessment)] and in respect of which he is in default or is deemed to be in default may be recovered out of such assets.
( ii) If the assets consist solely of money, or partly of money and partly of other assets, the 51[Assessing] Officer may apply such money in the discharge of the liabilities referred to in clause (i) and the assessee shall be discharged of such liability to the extent of the money so applied.
( iii) The assets other than money may also be applied for the discharge of any such liability referred to in clause (i) as remains undischarged and for this purpose such assets shall be deemed to be under distraint as if such distraint was effected by 52[the Assessing Officer or, as the case may be, Tax Recovery Officer] under authorisation from the 53 [[Chief Commissioner or Commissioner] under sub-section (5) of section 226 and 53a [the Assessing Officer or, as the case may be, Tax Recovery Officer] may recover the amount of such liabilities by the sale of such assets and such sale shall be effected in the manner laid down in the Third Schedule.
(2) Nothing contained in sub-section (1) shall preclude the recovery of the amount of liabilities aforesaid by any other mode laid down in this Act.
54 (3) Any assets or proceeds thereof which remain after the liabilities referred to in clause (i) of sub-section (1) are discharged shall be forthwith made over or paid to the persons from whose custody the assets were seized.
55 (4) (a) The Central Government shall pay simple interest at the rate of 56[fifteen] per cent per annum on the amount by which the aggregate of money retained under section 132 and of the proceeds, if any, of the assets sold towards the discharge of the existing liability referred to in clause (iii) of sub-section (5) of that section exceeds the aggregate of the amounts required to meet the liabilities referred to in clause (i ) of sub-section (1) of this section.
(b) Such interest shall run from the date immediately following the expiry of the period of six months from the date of the order under sub-section (5) of section 132 to the date of the regular assessment or reassessment referred to in clause (i) of sub-section (1) or, as the case may be, to the date of last of such assessments or reassessments.]