Artificial volume and price rigging justified commission income estimation at 5%, restoring the assessment addition.

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....Synchronized trading used to create artificial volumes and manipulate share prices justified estimation of commission income at 5%. The Tribunal held that once the assessee's involvement in price rigging and SEBI debarment was accepted, there was no basis to treat the activity as normal brokerage or to reduce the Assessing Officer's estimate to 1%. The Commissioner (Appeals) was therefore set aside and the higher commission addition was restored.....