Where reasonable explanation is furnished, levy of penalty u/s 271D is not justified

In the instant case, there was no evidence to show that money was loaned or kept deposited for a fixed period or repayable on demand. Further, the sister concerns and the assessee were owned by the same family group of people with a common managing partner with centralised accounts under the same roof. Transfer of funds had taken place in a whimsical manner. Therefore, it was rather difficult to say that the transactions were in the nature of deposits or loans with certain conditions attached to them, either as regards the period of such deposits or loans or with regard to their repayments. Fr...