Income Tax Department Must Provide Reasons for Case Transfer u/s 127; Assessee Cannot Contest Show-Cause Notice Validity.

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....Correctness/validity of an order under Section 127 - power of transfer of case - The natural corollary which has to follow is that the income tax department was required to assign reasons for proposing the transfer. These reasons were set out in the show-cause notice dated 11.01.2022. The assessee is thus precluded from stating that the show-cause notice is coloured on facts. This being a result of the order obtained by the assessee in the earlier writ petition, the assessee is barred from raising such a contention. - HC....