Limited scrutiny cannot be converted without approval; section 54F relief also cannot be denied for non-registered sale deed.

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....Limited scrutiny cannot be expanded into complete scrutiny without the written approval mandated by CBDT Instruction No. 7/2014; the Tribunal found that the assessment was enlarged beyond the original capital gains issue without such approval, so the assessment was quashed. Section 69A was not barred merely because the share acquisition transactions related to time-barred years, as the Tribunal treated the deeming fiction as sufficient to permit enquiry. For section 54F, exemption cannot be denied solely because the residential property was not conveyed by a registered sale deed; where purchase and investment within the statutory period were shown, the denial was unsustainable. The appeal was allowed.....