i) The Hon'ble Jurisdictional Calcutta High Court in the case of CIT vs. Bhagwati
Prasad Agarwal in I.T.A. No. 22/Kol/2009 dated 29.04.2009 at para 2 held as follows:
In the case of CIT(Central), Kolkata vs. Daulat
Ram Rawatmull reported in 87 ITR 349, the Hon'ble Supreme Court held that, the
onus to prove that the apparent is not the real is on the party who claims it to be so.
The burden of proving a transaction to be bogus has to be strictly discharged by
adducing legal evidences, which would directly prove the fact of bogusness or
establish circumstance unerringly and reasonably raising an interference to that
effect. The Hon'ble Supreme Court in the case of Umacharan Shah & Bros. Vs. CIT 37
ITR 271 held that suspicion however strong, cannot take the place of evidence.
18. We now consider the various propositions of law laid down by the Courts of law.
That cross-examination is one part of the principles of natural justice has been laid
down in the following judgments:
Assessment Year: 2014-15
Shri Kanwarlal Agarwal
ITA No.296/Kol/2016
Assessment Year: 2014-15
Smt. Ganpati Devi Agarwal
"23. A Constitution Bench of this Court in State of M.P. v. Chintaman Sadashiva
Vaishampayan AIR 1961 SC 1623, held that the rules of natural justice, require that a
party must be given the opportunity to adduce all relevant evidence upon which he
relies, and further that, the evidence of the opposite party should be taken in his
presence, and that he should be given the opportunity of cross-examining the witnesses
examined by that party. Not providing the said opportunity to cross-examine witnesses,
would violate the principles of natural justice.