Seized accounting records of share investments found non-incriminating; section 68 loan addition deleted on appeal

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....Whether seized documents constituted "incriminating material" to sustain an addition under section 68: Tribunal found the assessee's books and financials consistently showed investment/trading in shares, no evidence of physical movement of goods, and no AO finding that seized Tally data were parallel books; search material related to other group entities and thus irrelevant to the assessee's transactions. Legal basis: absence of incriminating material and reliance on Supreme Court precedent. Outcome: addition treating loans as bogus under section 68 is unsupported and is deleted; appeal allowed. - ITAT....