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If in relation to any assessment year, no incriminating material is found, no addition or disallowance can be made in relation to that assessment year in exercise of power under section 153A.
The issue under consideration is whether the assessment order passed by the assessing officer under section 153C is bad in law and void ab-initio?
The issue under consideration is whether short of the jewellery found during search be treated as sold and capital gain attracted?
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ITAT Remit Back the case of Actor Dulquer Salmann (Assessee) back to Assessing Officer (AO) as Information reconciling source for investments which were added as undisclosed income were placed before it but not placed before AO.
In our considered view therefore, although the name of the assessee does not feature in the panchnama, in view of the fact that warrant of authorization executed by the Department contained its name, the proceedings u/s 153A were validly initiated against the assessee.
Where no assessment proceedings are pending on the date of search and seizure proceedings, the assessment under section 153A can be carried out only on the basis of seized material and where no incriminating material was unearthed during the course of search proceedings, addition could not be made in the hands of assessee.
Once assessment gets abated, it is open for the assessee to lodge a new claim in a proceeding under Section 153A(1) which was not claimed in his regular return of income, because assessment was never made/finalised in the case of the assessee in such a situation. Thus, assessee was entitled to lodge a new claim for deduction etc. which remained to be claimed in his earlier/ regular return of income.
Various additions/disallowances made by AO were clearly beyond the scope of authority vested under s.153A owing to absence of any incriminating material or evidence deduced as a result of search in so far as completed assessments were concerned and the same was not permissible in law.
