Kasturchand Bafna vs State Of Chhattisgarh 2 Wa/64/2017 M/S ... on 25 July, 2019
29. Coming to the law declared by the Apex Court, which was cited and relied
on from part of the State/Revenue in M/s. Larsen & Toubro Ltd. Vs.
State of Jharkhand and Ors.12, the Court was examining the scope of
the word "Information" used in Section 19 of the Bihar Finance Act, 1981
(for short , 'the State Act') and it was held that the said term is used in the
widest amplitude and should not be construed narrowly. The point for
consideration as dealt with in paragraph 4 of the said judgment was
whether, on the information given by the audit team of the Auditor
General, Bihar, the Assessing Authority was satisfied that reasonable
ground existed to believe that a part of the turnover of the appellant-
Company had escaped assessment within the meaning of Section 19 of
the State Act; based on which the assessing officer could re-open the
assessment. The contention of the appellant/Assesse was that an 'audit
objection' could not be construed as 'information' within the meaning of
Section 19 of the State Act and would only remain as 'change in opinion'.
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The contention of the State was that the Assessing Authority had not
revised the assessment merely on the basis of audit report and that it had
satisfied itself before revising the same, while rejecting part of the audit
objection and thus applied its mind properly and further that audit
objection in the said case was of course a piece of information; adding
further that the word 'information' used in the said section was of widest
amplitude.