Section 147 Assessment Reopening Invalid: Pr.CIT's Approval u/s 151 Lacks Proper Consideration, Deemed Mechanical and Ritualistic.

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....Reopening of assessment u/s 147 - Pr.CIT has recorded his satisfaction for reopening of the assessment in a most mechanical manner without considering even the assessment records or the return of income filed by assessee and his satisfaction appears to be in a ritualistic and formal rather than meaningful. - Therefore, such approval under section 151 of the I.T. Act, 1961, is totally without application of mind and as such the satisfaction cannot be said to be valid in the eyes of Law. - AT....