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Diversion of income by overriding title arose where a collaboration agreement, banking records, ledger accounts and supporting material established the collaborator's entitlement to a share of flat-sale proceeds. That share did not accrue as the assessee's income because the agreement imposed an overriding obligation; procedural non-compliance, stamp-paper objections, lack of witnesses or doubts about expertise did not establish a fictitious income-diversion device. The resulting addition was deleted. Land acquisition cost could not be disallowed on the basis that it was absent from the books, since the books recorded the land and the purchase deed substantiated acquisition. The unexplained-source inference and related disallowance were deleted.
Diversion of income by overriding title arose where a collaboration agreement, banking records, ledger accounts and supporting material established the collaborator's entitlement to a share of flat-sale proceeds. That share did not accrue as the assessee's income because the agreement imposed an overriding obligation; procedural non-compliance, stamp-paper objections, lack of witnesses or doubts about expertise did not establish a fictitious income-diversion device. The resulting addition was deleted. Land acquisition cost could not be disallowed on the basis that it was absent from the books, since the books recorded the land and the purchase deed substantiated acquisition. The unexplained-source inference and related disallowance were deleted.
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