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2018 (2) TMI 517 - HC - Income TaxReopening of assessment - eligible reasons to believe - proof of accommodation entries - Held that:- A plain reading of the reasons recorded for reopening the assessment reveals that the basis for formation of belief that the transaction made by the assessee with M/s Shreeji Trading Company is bogus in nature is that Shri Anil Kumar Jain and Shri Pravin Kumar Jain admitted to carrying on the business of giving accommodation entries in the names of various entities and upon verification it was found that one such entity handled by them was M/s Shreeji Trading Company. As noted hereinabove, the information which was received by the Assessing Officer nowhere discloses that M/s Shreeji Trading Company was an entity handled by Shri Anil Kumar Jain and Shri Pravin Kumar Jain. No nexus has been established between Shri Anil Kumar Jain and Shri Pravin Kumar Jain who had made the statements under section 131 of the Act and M/s Shreeji Trading Company. Thus, the reasons are based upon a factually incorrect premise that M/s Shreeji Trading Company was being handled by Shri Anil Kumar Jain and Shri Pravin Kumar Jain. Absence of any material on record to indicate any nexus between M/s Shreeji Trading Company and Shri Anil Kumar Jain and Shri Pravin Kumar Jain, erodes the very substratum for formation of belief that income has escaped assessment. Consequently, once there is no foundation for such belief, the reasons based thereupon have no legs to stand, hence, on the reasons recorded - AO could not have formed the belief that any income chargeable to tax has escaped assessment. Therefore, the assumption of jurisdiction on the part of the Assessing Officer under section 147 of the Act to reopen the assessment by issuing the impugned notice under section 148 of the Act is without authority of law - Decided in favour of assessee
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