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    <description>Loose papers that are undated, unsigned and unlinked to the assessee cannot, by themselves, support additions for unexplained investment under section 69; the Tribunal treated the paper as a dumb document and deleted the addition. A figure on the same paper also could not be taxed as unexplained money under section 69A because no money or other valuable asset was found in the assessee&#039;s ownership, and the nature of the entry was not established; that addition was deleted. A gross profit addition based only on alleged stock shortage was rejected because the assessee gave a plausible job-work explanation that was not disproved. Third-party WhatsApp and police material could not be used without full disclosure or cross-examination, so the betting-related section 69A addition also failed.</description>
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