Assessment Reopening Valid u/s 147: Assessee's Failure to Request Reasons Means No Fault by Assessing Officer.

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....Reopening of assessment u/s 147 - undisclosed income - As the assessee in the case before us had at no stage applied for a copy of the reasons to believe on the basis of which its case was reopened, therefore, no fault can be attributed to the A.O in not supplying the same. In the backdrop of the aforesaid facts, finding no substance in the claim of the ld. A.R that the assessment framed u/s 143(3) r.w.s 147 would stand vitiated as the A.O had failed to supply the copy of the reasons to believe to the assessee, we reject the same. - AT....