Mere failure to produce dealers would not make Entire Purchases ‘Bogus’

Simply because the Assessee could not produce the dealers, the entire purchases cannot be treated as bogus purchases. The Assessing Officer could have made further investigations to ascertain the genuineness of the transactions. Relevant Extract of the Judgment 9. It is apparent from the assessment order that the basis for treating the purchases made by the Assessee from certain parties as mentioned in the assessment orders is only the information obtained by the Assessing Officer from Sales Tax department. We find that this information was not parted to the Assessee by the Assessing Officer.I...