Tribunal Rules Insufficient Evidence in Interest Payment Case, Upholds Deletion of Additions Due to Lack of Corroboration.

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....Unaccounted interest payment on cash loan - search and seizure action u/s 132 - loose paper seized from the premises of an employee - Tally printouts - 'dump document' - The tribunal found that the documents in question were insufficiently linked to the assessee, lacked corroborative evidence, and were not conclusively indicative of unaccounted transactions. Additionally, the failure to allow cross-examination further weakened the AO's case. - Consequently, the tribunal confirmed the order of CIT(A) for deletion of the additions.....