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2021 (4) TMI 907 - AT - Income TaxAssessment u/s 153C - Whether no satisfaction was recorded in case of search person? - HELD THAT:- It is pertinent to note that no satisfaction was recorded in case of search person and thus, the assessment itself becomes null and void. In fact, in the present case the Assessing Officer of assessee while submitting the remand report has categorically accepted that he has not recorded any satisfaction in the file of searched person. He has just taken a plea that he was the AO of both searched person and of the assessee. Besides this the contentions of the Ld. AR that as per the sub-rule-5 of Rule 6F every assessee under the Income Tax Act has to maintain the account of six previous years for the purpose of Income Tax. Now supposing a search is conducted in one year and documents of other person are handed over to the Assessing Officer, of other person or to the Assessing Officer with whom jurisdiction is centralized, after two years from the date of search, then for which six years the other person would show his accounts, whether for the years which are applicable for search person or for those years which are governed by the proviso. Thus, for those years which are governed by the proviso because the Income Tax Rules say so. And that is why the legislature in his wisdom by virtue of proviso, has substituted the date of search with the date of receiving of the documents pertaining to such other. Otherwise provisions of Rule 6F would redundant and the Assessing Officer can asked for records of those years also for which an assessee is not obliged to maintain records. However, the Assessing Officer assuming the impugned year, as a year of search, has framed the assessee under normal provisions of Income Tax. While applying the mandate of the proviso of section 153C read with 153A(1) and principle of law as laid down by the Hon’ble Jurisdictional High Court in the case of RRJ Securities [2015 (11) TMI 19 - DELHI HIGH COURT] then the six years which were to be covered are the years mentioned in table given by the Ld. AR. Thus, these contentions of the Ld. AR are sustainable under the provisions of the Income Tax Act as well as Income Tax Rules. Besides this, the CIT(A) has not taken the cognizance of the additional evidence filed by the assessee and thus on the merit also, the assessee succeeds. Hence, the appeal of the assessee being is allowed.
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