| COURT: | ITAT Delhi |
| CORAM: | K. N. Charry (JM), P. K. Bansal (AM) |
| SECTION(S): | 143(2), 143(3), S. 114 Of Evidence Act |
| GENRE: | Domestic Tax |
| CATCH WORDS: | Assessment, Non-issue of s. 143(2) notice, Non-service of s. 143(2) notice, null & void |
| COUNSEL: | Prakash Chand Yadav |
| DATE: | March 30, 2017 (Date of pronouncement) |
| DATE: | June 27, 2017 (Date of publication) |
| AY: | 2004-05 |
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| S. 143(2) notice: If the Department fails to produce evidence relating to the issue and service of the s. 143(2) notice, an adverse inference has to be drawn as per s. 114 of the Evidence Act. The s. 143(3) assessment order has to be held invalid and void ab initio | |
Once this Tribunal has directed the Revenue to produce the record with regard to the assessment so that it can be verified whether notice under section 143(2) of the Act has been issued and served on the assessee before completing the assessment under section 147/148 of the Act, the Revenue was bound to produce the record. But the Revenue could not produce the record and just explained in the Bar that the record has been misplaced. Under these circumstances, we are bound to take an adverse inference in view of the provisions of section 114 of the Evidence Act to the effect that had the assessment record been produced, the same would have gone against the interest of the Revenue
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