
A picture of Mangala oil field (pic courtesy: Cairn energy's website)
The demand was in respect of Cairn UK transferring shares of Cairn India Holdings to Cairn India as part of an internal group reorganization in 2006-07, resulting in capital gains, preceding an initial public offering (IPO) of shares by Cairn India.
I-T Department had said that Cairn UK made a capital gain of Rs 24,503.50 crore