Supreme Court of India

Delhi Television Ltd. v. Deputy Commissioner of Income Tax

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Reported as [2020] 7 S.C.R. 649
Bench L. Nageswara Rao and Deepak Gupta JJ.
Decided 3 April 2020

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the assessee had disclosed all primary facts before the assessing officer and it was not required to give any further assistance to the assessing officer by disclosure of other facts.

Judgment, page 21

From the headnote

Income Tax Act, 1961 : s.147 – Power under, invocation of – Whether the revenue had sufficient reasons to belie ve that undisclosed income of the assessee has escaped asse ssment and there were grounds to issue notice u/s.147 – Held: Informat ion which comes to the notice of the assessing officer during proc eedings for subsequent assessment years can definitely form tangi ble material to invoke powers vested with the assessing officer u/s.147 of the Act – At the stage of issuance of notice, the assess ing officer is to only form a prima facie view – In the instant case, material disclosed in

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