Charitable sports promotion: sponsorship receipts alone did not defeat registration where funds supported tournaments and player development activitie...
Overdue associated-enterprise receivables: debt-free status defeated notional-interest adjustment, while employee stock-option costs qualified as busi...
Retrospective assessment-limitation amendments validate final orders while contemporaneous segment data governs transfer-pricing comparability and tol...
Transfer pricing adjustments must track international transactions, while unsupported AMP adjustments and unsuitable manufacturing comparables require...
Transfer-pricing adjustments must reflect functional comparability, working-capital effects, and avoid duplicating interest on associated-enterprise r...
Statutory composition of the Adjudicating Authority requires a legally constituted Bench; absent an evidence-based finding that a Chairperson-only Bench was validly constituted, its adjudication is coram non judice and a nullity. The authority must identify the relevant property and record a prima facie finding that it is involved in money-laundering; a need to retain or freeze property for adjudication cannot replace that finding. Bank accounts or business turnover alone are not proceeds of crime without a reasoned nexus to scheduled-offence criminal activity. An appellate body cannot supply this omitted foundational finding. Non-communication of reasons to believe also breaches statutory safeguards, vitiating freezing and retention proceedings. The impugned order was quashed without deciding whether any offence was committed.
Statutory composition of the Adjudicating Authority requires a legally constituted Bench; absent an evidence-based finding that a Chairperson-only Bench was validly constituted, its adjudication is coram non judice and a nullity. The authority must identify the relevant property and record a prima facie finding that it is involved in money-laundering; a need to retain or freeze property for adjudication cannot replace that finding. Bank accounts or business turnover alone are not proceeds of crime without a reasoned nexus to scheduled-offence criminal activity. An appellate body cannot supply this omitted foundational finding. Non-communication of reasons to believe also breaches statutory safeguards, vitiating freezing and retention proceedings. The impugned order was quashed without deciding whether any offence was committed.
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