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2023 (12) TMI 1198 - AT - Income TaxBest judgment assessment u/s 144 - treating cash deposits in the assessee s bank account as its unexplained money u/s.69A r.w.s.115BBE - HELD THAT - We find that it is not a case where the CIT(Appeals) had discarded any material available on the record and summarily dismissed the assessee s appeal in limine for want of prosecution. Instead it is a case where in the absence of any evidence whatsoever whether documentary or otherwise which would substantiate that the A.O was unjustified in treating the cash deposits in the assessee s bank account as its unexplained money u/s.69A of the Act the CIT(Appeals) had sustained the addition made by the A.O u/s 144 of the Act dated 11.12.2019. Now when the assessee society as per its volition had not filed any return of income for the year under consideration A.Y 2017-18 i.e. either u/s 139 or in compliance to notice u/s 148 of the Act; or appeared before the A.O during the assessment proceedings or placed on his record any written submission or filed replies to the queries that were raised vide notice(s) issued u/s.142(1) of the Act; nor despite sufficient opportunities participated in the proceedings before the CIT(Appeals) then in the absence of any evidence whatsoever whether documentary or otherwise which would reveal that there was no justification for treating the cash deposits in the assessee s bank account as its unexplained money u/s.69A of the Act we are of a firm conviction that no infirmity emerges from the order of the CIT(Appeals) who had rightly approved the order passed by the A.O u/s 144. Although Section 253 of the Act inter alia vests with an assessee a statutory right to assail before the Income-Tax Appellate Tribunal an order passed by the Commissioner (Appeals) but a careful perusal of the aforesaid statutory provision reveals that the same can be triggered only where the assessee appellant is inter alia aggrieved with any order of assessment . Thus considering the scope of Sec. 253 of the Act it transpires that the same lays down as a pre-condition a grievance of the assessee appellant arising from the order passed by the Commissioner (Appeals). Apropos the claim of the Ld. A.R. that the matter in all fairness be restored to the file of the A.O. for fresh adjudication the same does not favor us. As observed by us herein above the grounds based on which the order of the CIT(Appeals) has been assailed before us are devoid and bereft of any merit; therefore the appeal is liable to be dismissed on the said count itself. Apart from that we are of a firm conviction that the right vested with an appellant to approach the tribunal by preferring an appeal before it is for a limited purpose i.e. a grievance that the assessment framed by the AO or for that matter order of the CIT(Appeal) were not according to law. In no case can the Tribunal be taken as a forum for an appellant who as per his volition had either adopted an evasive or lackadaisical approach before the lower authorities and not participated in the assessment or appellate proceedings to come up with its case for the first time before the Tribunal and as a matter of right seek restoring of the impugned order to the file of the lower authorities for fresh adjudication. Assessee appeal dismissed.
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