Commissioner Of Income Tax, Delhi Xvi. vs Arun Malhotra on 25 November, 2013
Tribunal has not given any finding
on the said aspect and their order is silent. Submission by the
respondent before the Assessing Officer was that three bills totaling
to Rs.95,37,920/- were returned and not paid as the material
supplied was rejected and returned. The assessment order does not
refer to re-import and rejection of material by the Hong Kong party
after export. At this stage, we may notice that the decision of the
Delhi High Court in the case of CIT vs. SMC Share Brokers Ltd. (2007)
288 ITR 345 was overruled by the Supreme Court with an order of
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remand in the decision reported as Income Tax Officer vs. M. Pirari
Chrodi (2011) 334 ITR 262 (SC) with a direction that the High court
was not correct in taking the view and an order of remand was
passed for cross examination. Even if we ignore the statement of
Chander Prakash Sachdeva, the appellant's contention is that there
was sufficient evidence or material to show that transactions were
not genuine. Further in case statements of Chander Prakash
Sachdeva were debatable, it has to be analyzed as to what weight
was to be given to the said statements and whether the
corroborative/surrounding circumstances, justify clean purgation of
the respondent assessee.