Reopening Property Assessment: Higher Stamp Duty Doesn't Prove Extra Payment Beyond Sale Deed Consideration.

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....Reopening of assessment - unaccounted investment in the purchase of the property - There cannot be an automatic presumption that a purchaser of the property had paid consideration higher than the sale consideration reflected in the sale deed, the moment the stamp valuation authority of the State Government demanded and the parties paid higher stamp duty. - HC....