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Issues: Whether the assessee was entitled to renewal of registration under section 12AB of the Income-tax Act, 1961 despite the Commissioner's finding that no application had been filed after amendment of the objects under section 12A(1)(ac)(v); and whether the consequential rejection of approval under section 80G could survive once the registration issue was decided in the assessee's favour.
Issue (i): Entitlement to renewal of registration under section 12AB of the Income-tax Act, 1961.
Analysis: The impugned rejection was founded on the assumption that the assessee had not sought approval after modification of its objects. The record showed otherwise: an application under section 12A(1)(ac)(v) had been filed and had culminated in approval in Form No. 10AD dated 18.04.2024. The Commissioner was bound to consider that subsisting order, and could not base a later refusal on a factual premise contradicted by the departmental record. No adverse finding was recorded that the objects were not charitable, that the educational activities were not genuine, or that any law material to the objects had been violated.
Conclusion: The refusal of renewal of registration under section 12AB was unsustainable and the assessee was entitled to renewal.
Issue (ii): Entitlement to renewal of approval under section 80G of the Income-tax Act, 1961.
Analysis: The rejection under section 80G rested entirely on the denial of renewal of registration under section 12AB. No independent adverse finding was recorded for refusing 80G approval. Once the denial of registration failed, the sole foundation for rejecting 80G approval also disappeared.
Conclusion: The rejection of approval under section 80G could not survive and the assessee was entitled to renewal.
Final Conclusion: The assessee succeeded in both appeals. The adverse orders were set aside and the statutory benefits sought by the assessee were directed to be granted for the relevant renewal period.
Ratio Decidendi: A later registration or approval proceeding cannot rest on a factual assumption that is contradicted by a subsisting order already passed by the competent authority, and consequential denial of one benefit cannot survive once the foundational refusal is found unsustainable.
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