Mere furnishing Shareholders ID not sufficient to discharge onus u/s 68

Section 68 of the Income Tax Act is a provision that enables the assessment of any sum found credited in the books of an assessee where no satisfactory explanation is offered by the assessee to explain the same. Courts have consistently held that the three guiding principles in the context of Section 68 would be the establishment of the identity and credit worthiness of the creditor and the genuineness of the transaction. In the present case, only the first of the three conditions has been established by the assessee. Neither the credit worthiness nor the genuineness stand explained. The stand...