Payment of Advance Tax / TDS cannot tantamount to disclosure of total income – SC

In the instant case, after the search was conducted on 23rd February 2006, it was found that for the assessment year 1995-96, the respondent-assessee had not filed its return of income by the due    date. It is only when block assessment proceedings were initiated by  the  assessing officer, that the  assessee  filed  its  return  for  the  said assessment year on 11th July, 1996  under  Section 158BC of  the  Act, showing its total income as Rs.7,02,768/-.

The assessee claimed, that    since Advance Tax had

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