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Income Tax Appellate Tribunal, NEW DELHI BENCH “A”: NEW DELHI
Before: SHRI SUNIL KUMAR YADAV & SHRI L.P. SAHU
Date of hearing : 22.09.2016 Date of Pronouncement : 23.09.2016 O R D E R
Per Sunil Kumar Yadav, Judicial Member
This appeal is preferred by the Revenue against the order of CIT(Appeals)(Central), Gurgaon dated 21.03.2013 inter alia on the following grounds:-
“(i) Whether on the facts and in the circumstances of the case the Ld. CIT(A) was right in deleting the addition of Rs.24,62,155/- made by the AO on account of unexplained source of investment in jewellery by ignoring the fact that at the time of assessment, the assessee has to explain the source of whole jewellery whether it is seized or not.
(ii) That the appellant craves to add, delete or modify any of the grounds of appeal before or at the time of hearing.”
2. Undisputedly, the present appeal has been preferred by the Revenue in violation of CBDT Circular No. 21/2015 dated 10.12.2015, wherein the pecuniary limit for preferring the appeal by the Revenue before the ITAT has been prescribed beyond Rs.10 lakhs. The above circular on pecuniary limit has now statutory force within the provisions of section 268A of the IT Act, hence, the present appeal is not maintainable.
The ld. DR requested that while dismissing the appeal as not maintainable, it may be made clear that the present order will have no precedential value.
In view of the above discussion, the present appeal preferred by the Revenue in violation of CBDT Circular No. 21/2015 (supra) is not maintainable and hence, the same is dismissed as such, making it clear that since the present appeal has not been disposed of on merits of the appeal, but due to above reason, it will have no any judicial precedence.
In the result, the appeal is dismissed as not maintainable.
Pronounced in the open court on this 23rd day of September 2016.