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Issues: Whether the capital gains arising from sale of listed shares that were claimed exempt under section 10(38) can be treated as unexplained cash credit under section 68 of the Income-tax Act, 1961, and whether consequential commission addition can be sustained.
Analysis: The assessee produced documentary evidence showing acquisition through a registered broker, credit to demat account, sale on the stock exchange, routing of payments through banking channels and payment of applicable transaction taxes. The assessing authority primarily relied on an investigation wing report and observations about sharp price rise and the alleged penny-stock nature of the scrip without conducting independent enquiries or pointing to deficiencies in the assessee's documentation. Co-ordinate and jurisdictional precedents applying the same facts establish that, where share transactions are executed on exchange through registered brokers, settled through banking channels, supported by contract notes and demat records and not shown to be tainted by direct participation in price rigging, mere suspicion from price movement or an investigation report, without corroborative material or independent inquiry, is insufficient to treat sale proceeds as unexplained cash credit u/s 68.
Conclusion: The addition under section 68 and the commission addition are deleted; the appeal of the revenue is dismissed and the assessing officer's additions are not sustained in favour of the assessee.
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