Reopening Tax Assessment Needs More Than Information from Another Officer; Mere Suspicion Isn't Enough u/s 147.

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....Validity of reopening of assessment u/s 147 - The information given by another Income Tax Officer, based on appraisal report of Badalia Group cases, can only be a basis to ignite/trigger “reason to suspect” for which reopening cannot be made for further examination to be carried out by him in order to strengthen the suspicion to an extent which can form the belief in his mind that income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment.....