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Income Tax Department's Election Cash Seizure Violated Section 132; Ordered to Refund with 10% Interest.

June 3, 2019

Case Laws     Income Tax     HC

Seizure of cash in election by ECI - IT Dept. has completely failed to appreciate that neither the seizure was u/s 132 nor the pre-requisite to an exercise of search and seizure u/s 132 were satisfied nor the requisition satisfies the provisions of Section 226(3), which is the only provision enabling the IT Dept. to take over the money apart from the search and seizure - directed to refund with interest @ 10%

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