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Issues: Whether the Principal Commissioner was justified in invoking revision jurisdiction under section 263 of the Income-tax Act, 1961 on the ground that the assessment order had been passed without proper enquiry or verification, thereby treating it as erroneous and prejudicial to the interests of Revenue.
Analysis: The assessment accepted the assessee's claim of agricultural income from tissue cultured banana saplings. The revisional authority found that the Assessing Officer had not undertaken the necessary factual verification of the nature of the activity before granting exemption. The Tribunal noted that Explanation 2 to section 263, inserted by the Finance Act, 2015, deems an order erroneous and prejudicial to the interests of Revenue where it is passed without making enquiries or verification that should have been made. Since the claim had not been properly examined at the assessment stage, the revisional interference was held to be justified.
Conclusion: The invocation of section 263 was upheld and the assessee's claim failed.
Final Conclusion: The assessment was held to be liable to revision for want of enquiry, and the appeal was dismissed.
Ratio Decidendi: An assessment order passed without making the enquiries or verification necessary to test a claimed exemption is erroneous and prejudicial to the interests of Revenue, and is amenable to revision under section 263.
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