2012 (5) TMI 186 - HC - Income Tax

Addition made on account of alleged unexplained income – ITAT deleted the addition - Held that:- Once the assessee has established that he has taken money by way of accounts payee cheques from the lenders who are all income tax assessees whose PAN have been disclosed, the initial burden under Section 68 of the Act was discharged - once the Assessing Officer gets hold of the PAN it was his duty to ascertain from whether in their respective return they had shown existence of such amount of money and had further shown that those amount of money had been lent to the assessee - without verifying such fact from the income tax return of the creditors, the action taken by the AO in examining the lenders of the assessee was a wrong approach - Tribunal below rightly set-aside the deletion made by the Assessing Officer, based on erroneous approach by wrongly shifting the burden again upon the assessee without verifying the Income Tax return of the creditors – in favour of assessee.