Sushil Kumar Singhal, Shahdol vs Deputy Commissioner Of Income ... on 14 September, 2022
3.2 We find no merit in the assessee‟s claim. The assessment under reference is
not u/s. 153A, i.e., consequent to search or requisition in the assessee‟s case,
invalidating his Ground-1 before us. The impugned assessment is u/s. 143(3), i.e.,
a regular assessment, as defined u/s. 2(40) of the Act, which does not require
search or requisition as a jurisdictional fact. Rather, but for the fact that the
authorisation u/s. 132 stands admitted by the Revenue to have not been issued on
the assessee, but instead on a like named person, i.e., of it being a case of mistaken
identity, the Tribunal, as explained by the Hon'ble jurisdictional High Court in
Gaya Prasad Pathak vs. CIT [2007] 290 ITR 128 (MP), is not competent to decide
on the validity or legality of a search u/s. 132 or a requisition u/s. 132A. As
explained by it, a valid authorisation u/s. 132A is not a jurisdictional or even an
adjudicatory fact for an assessment u/s. 158BC which, as an assessment u/s. 153A,
was an assessment pursuant to a search or requisition under Chapter XIV-B of the
Act, since discontinued.