Diary Entries Alone Insufficient for Tax Additions u/s 292C; Requires Supporting Evidence to Avoid Illegal Assumptions.

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....Additions based on entries in the Diary - Presumption u/s 292C - without substantiating the content of the noting in the diary, the value adopted by way of decoding by the authorities below based on assumption, presumption and guess work is illegal and against the law. Since, the diary jottings have not been corroborated from any relevant material documentary evidence and hence, the jottings in the diary by no stretch of imagination can be accepted as an evidence or conclusive proof of ‘renovation expenditure in multiple of 00/100 by the assessee for the purpose of presumption u/s 292C of the Act against the assessee - AT....