University's Exemption Eligibility u/s 11 Challenged Over Non-UGC Coaching Classes; Assessing Officer to Verify Evidence.

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....Exemption u/s 11 - charitable activity - We fail to understand as to how any university, which has been set up under the UGC Act could grant affiliation for coaching classes which are nowhere part of commission’s standards. Faced with this situation, we are of the opinion that the learned Assessing Officer needs to factually verify all the assessee’s evidence(s) afresh and treat it as eligible for Section 11 exemption only for those courses which are run by the university strictly in tune with the UGC’s guidelines and if it is found that the coaching classes herein violate the same, the latter’s would be held as not entitled for the impugned exemption in light of the cited case laws. - AT....