Search assessment and multiplex lease receipts: incriminating material limits additions, but commercial exploitation supported business income treatme...
Assessment proceedings initiated and completed in the name of a person who had died before the second-round proceedings began lack legal validity. The legal heir's participation in appellate proceedings does not cure the foundational defect of assessing a non-existent deceased assessee. Consequently, the search assessment for the relevant assessment year was treated as void ab initio and quashed, while the remaining grounds were left open as academic.
Assessment proceedings initiated and completed in the name of a person who had died before the second-round proceedings began lack legal validity. The legal heir's participation in appellate proceedings does not cure the foundational defect of assessing a non-existent deceased assessee. Consequently, the search assessment for the relevant assessment year was treated as void ab initio and quashed, while the remaining grounds were left open as academic.
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