Assessing Officer Needs to Doubt Assessee's Books Before Ordering Property Valuation u/s 142A, Despite 2004 Amendment.

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....Before ordering the valuation of any property by independent Valuer in respect of an assessee, who maintained books of account, the AO must express his lack of confidence in the books of account - though Section 142A of the Act was amended in the year 2004 with retrospective effect from 1972, it is difficult to sustain the exercise undertaken by the AO on the touch stone of that provision - HC....