COURT: | Bombay High Court |
CORAM: | A. K. Menon J., M. S. Sanklecha J |
SECTION(S): | 68 |
GENRE: | Domestic Tax |
CATCH WORDS: | Bogus Loans, cross examination, Failure of natural justice, Undisclosed Income |
COUNSEL: | Deepak Tralshawalla |
DATE: | June 30, 2016 (Date of pronouncement) |
DATE: | July 7, 2016 (Date of publication) |
AY: | 1983-84 |
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CITATION: | |
S. 68: The assessee is bound to be provided with the material used against him apart from being permitted to cross examine the deponents. The denial of such opportunity goes to root of the matter and strikes at the very foundation of the assessment order and renders it vulnerable |
On a very fundamental aspect, the revenue was not justified in making addition at the time of reassessment without having first given the assessee an opportunity to cross examine the deponent on the statements relied upon by the ACIT. Quite apart from denial of an opportunity of cross examination, the revenue did not even provide the material on the basis of which the department sought to conclude that the loan was a bogus transaction. This not having been done, the denial of such opportunity goes to root of the matter and strikes at the very foundation of the reassessment and therefore renders the orders passed by the CIT (A) and the Tribunal vulnerable
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