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Green Park Estate Pvt. Ltd. Vs ACIT (ITAT Delhi)
A perusal of the reasons recorded in the case of the assessee as well as in the case of M/s Green Valley Tower Ltd. are identical on the issue of alleged interest paid on post dated cheuqes. We have also gone through the paper book containing the copies of seized documents and the summary of these seized documents. It is the assessee contention that there was no seized documents which were referred to in the assessment order which could the said to be belonging to the assessee. The Ld. Sr. DR has also failed to bring to anything on record to establish that any seized documents were found during the course of search belonging to the assessee. There is a clear finding recorded by the Ld. CIT(A) in the impugned order in Para. 4.3 & 4.4 of his order that none of the seized documents belonged to the assessee. The Ld. Sr. DR was unable to controvert this categorical finding recorded by the Ld. CIT(A). Thus, undisputedly, in the present case, no documents belonging to the assessee were found during the course of search.
Each and every assessee is a separate and distinct assessee. It is a fact on record that no seized material belonging to the assessee was found during the course of search on BPTP Ltd. and some of its group companies. None of the vendors of land who sold land to assessee were called and examined by the AO. There is nothing adverse brought on record by the AO in form of any material or any statement that interest outside the books was paid in cash by the assessee. The reasons were recorded by the AO by relying on seized documents which belonged to some other assessee during the course of search on BPTP Ltd. and some of its companies. Considering the rules of precedence and consistency and in absence of any material, document, evidence or statement which could implicate the assessee, in our view, the impugned assessment could not have been reopened. In view of these specific facts, the action taken by the AO of reopening of the assessment u/s 147 of assesse is not sustainable and the same is quashed as being void ab-initio as being based on seized documents of other assessee and based on presumptions, assumptions and incorrect interpretation of law.
FULL TEXT OF THE ORDER OF ITAT DELHI
This appeal is preferred by the assessee against order dated 18.12.2012 passed by the Learned Commissioner of Income Tax (Appeals)-XXXIII, New Delhi {CIT(A)} and pertains to Assessment Year 2006-07.
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