Assessing Officer's Role: Deciding on Income Reassessment Without Detailed Investigation u/s 143(1.

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....Reopening of assessment - The primary task of the AO is to probe whether any income had escaped assessment when the original returns were accepted or merely framed u/s 143(1) - as it so happened in this case. AO cannot be expected to conduct a mini-investigation or assessment during the course of ascertaining whether the re-assessment notice needs to be gone further into.....