Attachment and proclamation of sale of immovable property: limitation treated from financial year end; proclamation held within period, petition dismi...
Second Schedule attachment and validity of a post-notice mortgage: TRO cannot declare mortgage void ab initio; sale and appropriation allowed thereaft...
Limitation for final assessment under sections 144C and 153 treated jointly, resulting in quashing of timebarred assessment order and liberty to reviv...
Reopening of assessment was valid where specific information and documentary material, including affidavits and tally entries naming lenders, connected to the AOs independent formation of belief that income had escaped assessment, establishing a live link and satisfying the tangible material requirement for initiating proceedings; therefore reassessment jurisdiction was sustained. Separately, denial of opportunity to cross-examine a witness whose statement formed the basis of additions violated principles of natural justice; the impugned appellate order is set aside on that issue and the matter is remitted with direction to permit cross-examination.
Reopening of assessment was valid where specific information and documentary material, including affidavits and tally entries naming lenders, connected to the AOs independent formation of belief that income had escaped assessment, establishing a live link and satisfying the tangible material requirement for initiating proceedings; therefore reassessment jurisdiction was sustained. Separately, denial of opportunity to cross-examine a witness whose statement formed the basis of additions violated principles of natural justice; the impugned appellate order is set aside on that issue and the matter is remitted with direction to permit cross-examination.
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