The ITAT allowed the assessee's challenges to additions made...

The ITAT allowed the assessee's challenges to additions made under s.153A and disallowances premised solely on a statement allegedly recorded u/s 132(4) where no incriminating material was seized and the statement was retracted, holding such statement lacked evidentiary value and cannot sustain additions absent corroboration; accordingly ground nos. addressing that issue were allowed. The Tribunal held the AO's sample one-month extrapolation and permutation-and-combination estimates were arbitrary and impermissible. The Tribunal nonetheless upheld a limited disallowance for amounts characterised as penal ("Shashti") while treating other payments as compensatory, and disallowed the CIT(A)'s direction compelling fresh month-wise submissions as beyond authority; relevant grounds were partly allowed/allowed.

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