Appellate bodies urged to respect Original Authority's findings on extended limitation period for tax evasion cases.

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....Extended period of limitation - The Adjudicating Authority has in the impugned order given clear reasons as to why the allegations of suppression of facts and intention to evade tax has been arrived by him for invoking the extended time limit. It has been held by Constitutional Courts that appellate bodies cannot be unmindful of the great weight to be attached to the findings of facts of the Original Authority who has first hand knowledge and is in a position to assess the facts and the credibility of circumstances from his own observation. - AT....