2022 (10) TMI 662

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....ne through the records in the light of submissions made by Id. DR. There is no dispute of the fact that the search & seizure operation in this case took place on 20.06.2014, by which date the time period to issue notice u/s. 143(2) for assessment year 2009-10 stood expired. There is also no dispute that no incriminating material was found during the search and seizure operation to base any addition qua this assessment year. 7. In CIT vs. Kabul Chawla (supra), Hon'ble Delhi High Court held that the assessment cannot be made arbitrarily without any relevance or nexus with the seized material and the assessment in such cases has to be made only on the basis of incriminating material found during the search and completed assessments cannot be....

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....e AY in which the search takes place. ii. Assessments and reassessments pending on the date of the search shall abate. The total income for such AYs will have to be computed by the AOs as a fresh exercise. iii. The AO will exercise normal assessment powers in respect of the six years previous to the relevant AY in which the search takes place. The AO has the power to assess and reassess the 'total income' of the aforementioned six years in separate assessment orders for each of the six years. In other words there will be only one assessment order in respect of each of the six AYs "in which both the disclosed and the undisclosed income would be brought to tax". iv. Although Section 153 A does not say that additions should be st....