2016 (6) TMI 338

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....R : MR. AKIL KURESHI) The Revenue is in Appeal against the judgment of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal raising following question for our consideration. "Whether the Appellate Tribunal has substantially erred in deleting the addition Rs. 50,05,202/- made under Section 40(a)(ix) made by the AO without appreciating the fact that the assessee is in default under Section 201 of the I.T.Act and....

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....ee approached CIT(Appeals) which reversed the order of AO making following observations:   "3.3. I have considered the facts of the case, assessment order and appellant's submission. Appellant submitted that this issue is covered in its favour by the decision of ITAT special bench Mumbai in the case of Shreyas s Morakhia, 40 SOT 432 and also Delhi High Court decision in the case of DB ....

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....the documents on record, we are in agreement with the view of the CIT(Appeals) when it refers to the case of the Delhi High Court in the case of Commissioner of Income-Tax vs. D.B.(India) Securities reported in 318 ITR 26 and places reliance on it. In the said decision, the Division Bench of the High Court considered a situation where the assessee was a member of the Delhi Stock Exchange and was e....

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....counsel for the Revenue, in this appeal filed against the aforesaid order, has canvassed two submissions: (1) The aforesaid amount could not be treated as "debt" at all under the provisions of section 36(2) of the Act and, therefore, the question of treating it as "bad debt" does not arise. (2) The assessee had not sold the shares to anybody else in the market and in the absence of such a sa....