Commissioner Of Income Tax West Bengal vs Anwar Ali on 29 April, 1970
No doubt, the fact that the assessment order contains a
finding that the disputed amount represents income
constitutes good evidence in the penalty proceeding but the
finding in the assessment proceeding cannot be regarded as
conclusive for the purposes of the penalty proceeding, That
is how the law has been understood by this Court in Anwar
Ali (supra), and we believed that to be the law still. It
was also laid down that before a penalty can be imposed the
entirety of the circumstances must be taken into account and
must point to the conclusion that the disputed amount
represents income and that the assessee has consciously
concealed particulars of his income or deliberately
furnished inaccurate particulars. The mere falsity of the
explanation given by the assessee, it was observed, was
insufficient without there being in addition cogent material
of evidence from which the necessary conclusion attracting a
penalty could be drawn.