Third-party search material cannot support a regular assessment under section 143(3) without reassessment procedure and approval.

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....Additions based on documents seized in the case of another person must be brought within the reassessment framework under Explanation 2 to section 148, after recording the prescribed satisfaction and obtaining statutory approval; they cannot be made in a regular assessment under section 143(3). The ITAT held that the Assessing Officer's use of third-party search material without following that mandatory procedure rendered the assessment invalid. The assessment order was therefore quashed, and the remaining grounds became academic.....