Officer's Procedural Error: Incorrectly Reopened Assessment u/ss 147/148 Instead of Initiating u/s 153C.

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....Assessment u/s 153C v/s Reopening of assessment u/s 147 - when incriminating documents were found during the course of search, the same have been used in the case of the assessee-company. The proper course the A.O. should have adopted is to proceed against the assessee-company under section 153C of the I.T. Act instead of recording reasons for reopening of the assessment under section 147/148 of the I.T. Act. - AT....