{"id":57209,"date":"2025-10-19T07:38:47","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T02:08:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/estate-investment-co-pvt-ltd-v-dcit-mumtrib-www-itatonline-org\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T07:38:47","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T02:08:47","slug":"estate-investment-co-pvt-ltd-v-dcit-mumtrib-www-itatonline-org","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/estate-investment-co-pvt-ltd-v-dcit-mumtrib-www-itatonline-org\/","title":{"rendered":"Estate Investment Co. Pvt. Ltd. v. DCIT (Mum)(Trib) www.itatonline.org"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>During search, diaries maintained by an employee were seized containing notings with initials \u201cKB\u201d, which the Assessing Officer treated as unaccounted cash receipts for release of rights in <strong data-start=\"2085\" data-end=\"2101\">Eksali lands<\/strong>, taxing them as capital gains. The Tribunal observed that the diaries were personal records of an employee, not maintained under the assessee\u2019s direction and unsupported by corroborative evidence. The statements of the employees were inconsistent and later retracted, and no third-party verification was carried out. Relying on <strong data-start=\"2430\" data-end=\"2451\">\u00a0<\/strong>Common Cause (A Registered Society) v. UOI \u00a0[(2017) 394 ITR 220 (SC) , <strong>\u00a0<\/strong>V.C. Shukla \u00a0\u00a0v. CBI \u00a0(1998) 3 SCC 410\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>and CIT v. Reliance Industries Ltd. [(2020) 261 Taxman 358 (Bom)(HC) <strong>,<\/strong> the Tribunal held that loose papers or \u201cdumb documents\u201d cannot, without corroboration, form the basis of addition. The entire addition of \u20b9 4.96 crore was deleted.( <em>ITA Nos. 3012\u20133013 &amp; 3222\u20133228\/Mum\/2025 dt. 17-10-2025) \u00a0( AY. 2014-15 to 2022-23) <\/em><strong><\/p>\n<p><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>S. 45 : Capital gains \u2013 Alleged NOC receipts \u2013 Loose sheets &#8211; Statement in the Course of search \u2013 Statement retracted &#8211;  No corroboration \u2013 Additions deleted. [ S.132,  132(4), 132(4A)  ]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57209","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-income-tax-act"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9S2Rw-eSJ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57209","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57209"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57209\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57210,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57209\/revisions\/57210"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57209"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57209"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/itatonline.org\/digest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57209"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}