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2022 (11) TMI 202 - AT - Income TaxAssessment u/s 153A - As a consequence to the search, various documents had been found and seized - HELD THAT:- As admitted fact that DB-06 relates to the documents impounded in the course of search on Debabrata Behera. In documents found in the course of searched person is found to relate to any person other than the searched person, there is compulsory requirement under the law to record satisfaction in the file of the searched person by the AO of the searched person. Clearly, no satisfaction has been recorded in the case of Debabrata Behera to show that the said impounded document DB-06 or any part thereof relate to the assessee herein. This being so, on this ground alone, we are of the view that said evidence cannot be used against the assessee. If DB-06 is removed, then the very foundation of the AO for raising the allegation of suppression of sales would also go. This being so, in the absence of valid recording of satisfaction, for the purpose of using DB-06, the assessment as done in the case of the assessee stands quashed. The assessment is made herein u/s.153A. If the evidence in the form DB-06 impounded in the course of search of Debabrata Behera is to be considered, then obviously, the assessment could not have been done u/s 153A of the Act, but u/s.153C even that has not been done in the present case. Consequently, even on this ground also, the present assessment is invalid and same is quashed.
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