TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
1971 (3) TMI 33
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.... Appellate Tribunal for the opinion of this court. They are as follows : "(1) Whether the provision for imposition of a penalty under clause (C) of sub-section (1) of section 28 of the Income-tax Act, 1922, is of a penal nature? (2) Whether the onus of establishing the conditions requisite for the imposition of a penalty under section 28(1)(c) of the Act lies upon the revenue ? (3) Whether the ....
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....56 the Income-tax Officer noticed a number of cash credits totalling Rs. 19,600 in the accounts of different persons. The Income-tax Officer considered the explanation of those persons as to the source of the deposits and did not believe them. He treated the total amount of cash credits as the income of the assessee from undisclosed sources and included it in the total income of the assessee. In ....
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.... did not appeal against the assessment order. Thereafter the Income-tax Officer initiated proceedings under section 28(1) of the Indian Income-tax Act, 1922, in respect of each of the two assessment years mentioned above. The assessee attempted the same explanation as had been adduced by it during the assessment proceedings and with the same result. The Income-tax Officer levied a penalty of Rs. ....
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....f its income or deliberately furnished inaccurate particulars thereof. It has observed that the assessments proceeded on the basis of estimates and inferences and that the existence of the income had not been established beyond reasonable doubt. Upon this ground it has found that the provisions of section 28(1)(c) are not attracted. A long catena of cases had been referred to and discussed by the ....