Partner capital contribution evidenced through banking records discharged cash-credit onus, requiring deletion of the unexplained-credit addition.

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....Documentary evidence of a newly inducted partner's capital contribution through banking instruments can discharge the assessee's onus for cash-credit purposes. Where pay-in slips, the partner's capital account and the balance sheet establish that the credit represents partner capital, the absence of a partner confirmation alone does not establish that the explanation is false. Relying on the principle in Pankaj Dyestuff Industries, the High Court treated the unexplained-cash-credit addition as perverse and deleted it, allowing the tax appeal.....