No deduction shall be made from any sum credited or paid or likely to be credited or paid during the previous year to the account of a contractor during the course of business of plying, hiring or leasing goods carriages, on furnishing of his Permanent Account Number, to the person paying or crediting such sum.
(an assessee, who is in possession of a goods carriage, whether taken on hire purchase or on instalments and for which the whole or part of the amount payable is still due, shall be deemed to be the owner of such goods carriage.]
In the case told by u, the assessee is not having the ownership of the vehicles rendered on hire. Thats y, he cant claim the benefit of this section. This section is specially applicable to those assessees who owns the vehicles or had taken the vehicles on hire purchase or financing scheme.
(Refer sec 194C in Incometax bare act and also explanation to that Point L(ii).