Case Law Details
Onus is on the assessee company to bring on record the cogent evidences to prove the identity and creditworthiness of the share subscribers and genuineness of the transaction which in the instant case the assessee is not able to prove the same as per the facts emerging from the records and material before us as set out above and in our considered view in the instant case the transactions were nominal rather than real.
The creditworthiness of the shareholders is not proved because they did not had their own money as every cheque/draft issued in favour of the assessee is preceded by deposit of cash/cheque in the bank account of the shareholder and these share holders are merely name lenders. The genuineness of the transactions is also not proved as to how such a huge sum of money got invested by the share subscribers and that too at a huge premium when the company was merely a paper/shell company having no business/project worth in its hand.
The shareholders could not be interrogated by the AO which was essential to unearth the truth as the assessee did not produced the shareholders nor they appeared before the AO in response to summons issued u/s 131 of the Act.
The Directors namely Mr. Vinod K Faria and Mr Suresh V. Faria of the assessee company have admitted in their statement recorded on oath u/s 132(4)/131 of the Act that these share subscription was bogus and were merely accommodation entries.
The blank transfer forms and receipts from the shareholders were found during survey with respect to transfer of these shares from shareholders to the persons to be nominated by the promoters, all the share application forms were filled in the same handwriting , there was no serial numbers in share application form , the acknowledgment of receipt of share application forms were not given to the share subscribers by the assessee and these are not usual conduct of the carrying on of business .
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