Search-related reassessment procedure displaces ordinary scrutiny assessment and invalidates regular assessments made after a search operation.

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....Following a search under section 132, assessment of search-related escaped income must proceed through the special reassessment mechanism under section 148 rather than the general scrutiny-assessment route under section 143(3). Consequently, a regular assessment made under section 143(3) for the relevant post-search assessment was treated as unsustainable in law and quashed, rendering the remaining grounds academic. The principle limits recourse to ordinary scrutiny assessment where the prescribed search-linked reassessment framework applies.....