ITAT deletes section 69 addition for partnership investment with proper banking trail and share sale documentation

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....ITAT allowed the assessee's appeal and deleted the addition made under section 69 read with section 115BBE for unexplained investment in partnership firm capital. The assessee successfully explained the immediate source as loan from father received through banking channels with complete fund trail. Father's source was substantiated through documented share sale on recognized stock exchange via registered broker. Revenue failed to produce independent material to discredit the explanation or establish undisclosed income. ITAT held both essential conditions under section 69 were unfulfilled as the assessee recorded the investment in books and satisfactorily explained nature and source through cogent documentary evidence. Assessing Officer could not rebut the explanation with credible material, and mere suspicion cannot substitute legally admissible evidence.....