Primary onus discharged on establishing identity and creditworthiness of share applicants & genuineness of transactions 

DCIT Vs Sanverwala Jewellers Pvt Ltd (ITAT Indore) In this case Assessing Officer merely doubted the investment made by the share applicants for the reason that they did not submit any proof regarding agricultural activities done by them. It is therefore quite evident that the Assessing Officer himself accepted the identity of the share applicants and genuineness of the transactions as entered into with them. In view of these facts, we are of the view that the assessee company satisfactorily discharged the primary onus as cast upon it under section 68 of the Income-Tax Act, 1961 by establishin...