Investing companies' identity can't be presumed non-existent for share capital addition.

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....The ITAT held that the AO failed to conclusively establish that the investing companies were non-existent to invoke Section 68 for addition of share capital. Regarding Section 56(2)(viib) addition for share premium, the ITAT ruled that when an unquoted company opts for the Discounted Cash Flow valuation method u/r 11UA(2)(b), the AO cannot disregard it and substitute with another method, even if discrepancies exist in the assessee's workings. The assessee's appeal was allowed.....