Recorded investments under section 69 cannot be treated as unexplained merely because partners' financial capacity is questioned.

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....Section 69 applies only to investments not recorded in the assessee's books of account. Immovable properties recorded in the firm's regular books, together with corresponding identifiable partners' capital contributions, cannot be treated as unexplained investments where the books have not been found defective or rejected. Concerns about an individual partner's financial capacity must be examined in that partner's assessment and do not, by themselves, make the firm's recorded investment unexplained. Principles applicable to unexplained cash credits do not govern recorded investments under section 69. The addition for unexplained investment was therefore deleted, while the reassessment challenge was left academic.....