Natural justice breach invalidated an assessment where relied-upon search material was not supplied to the assessee for rebuttal.

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....An assessment based on undisclosed relied-upon material, including server data, corroborative search documents and an Investigation Wing screenshot, was held unsustainable because the assessee was never furnished those materials or given an opportunity to rebut them. The Tribunal held that this denial of access breached audi alteram partem and the broader requirements of natural justice, rendering the assessment arbitrary and bad in law. The assessment order was quashed on that ground alone, and the merits of the additions were left open as academic.....