2016 (10) TMI 1259

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....n relation to the assessment year 2006-07. 2. The assessee has filed revised grounds of appeal. 3. The first issue raised in these appeals is against the addition u/s 69 of the Act. Briefly stated, the facts of the case are that the assessee is engaged in the business of purchase of lands/buildings and to develop the same for the purposes of disposing/maintaining. During the year under consideration, the assessee purchased freehold land measuring 17.83 acres for a sum of Rs. 3,31,90,000/-. This land was purchased vide 11 sale deeds which were executed between 29.8.2005 and 28.9.2005. The land is located within the MCD city limits. As the AO was not satisfied with the purchase consideration, he referred the matter to the District Valua....

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....the rival submissions and perused the relevant material on record. It is observed that the only dispute on this issue is about the investment made by the assessee in purchase of 11 plots in the course of its business. Whereas the assessee went by the rates given in sale deeds as a proper measure of investment made, the AO estimated the investment made by the assessee on the basis of the DVO's report, which valuation was partially reduced by the ld. CIT(A). The AO, in making this addition did not reject the books of account maintained by the assessee and straightway went ahead in making the addition on the basis of the DVO's report. The Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Sargam Cinema vs. CIT (2010) 328 ITR 513 (SC) has held that where the....

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....ction (2). As the assessment year under consideration is 2006-07, being, a year anterior to the amendment, the same will be governed by the judgment in Sargam Cinema (supra) and not the later amendment nullifying the pro tanto effect of this judgment. 6. Here it is pertinent to note that the Assessing Officer has made the addition u/s 69 of the Act. This section, in turn, provides that : `Where in the financial year immediately preceding the assessment year the assessee has made investments which are not recorded in the books of account, if any, maintained by him for any source of income, and the assessee offers no explanation about the nature and source of the investments or the explanation offered by him is not, in the opinion of the A....