Sunit Engineering And Industrial ... vs Income-Tax Officer on 20 October, 1993
In my considered opinion, the above decision of my learned brother is incorrect in view of the settled position of law as laid down by the Supreme Court in the case of Omar Salay Mohamed Salt v. CIT [1959] 37 ITR 151, wherein it was held that the Appellate Tribunal had improperly rejected evidence gathered by the Income-tax Officer after the passing of the assessment order but pending an appeal from the assessment order to the Appellate Assistant Commissioner. Applying the ratio of the above Supreme Court decision to the facts of the present case, I am of the opinion that the Tribunal was perfectly justified in considering and relying on the additional statements of the three creditors which formed a part of the record before the Tribunal (having been filed by the assessee in the form of a paper book) even though these statements were recorded by the Income-tax Officer after the passing of the order by the Commissioner of Income-tax (Appeals).