SRO stamp value date for land sale u/s50C: agreement/settlement date governs LTCG, recomputation ordered, appeal set aside

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....For computing LTCG under the deeming fiction of s.50C, the relevant SRO value is the value prevailing on the date of the operative "agreement to sell"/settlement document, provided the statutory preconditions are satisfied; accordingly, SRO value as on 23.11.2013 was directed for the land covered by the court-recorded compromise, and SRO value as on 12.08.2013 was directed for the land covered by the MOUs. For the balance land not traceable to the compromise/MOUs, SRO value as on the dates of the last registered sale deeds in November 2015 was directed. The appellate order was set aside and recomputation was ordered on these lines - ITAT....