The Jammu & Kashmir and Ladakh High Court held that once an Income Tax Return is produced to prove income, courts need not examine its source absent rebuttal evidence, as statutory ITR filings carry evidentiary value unless shown to be false or unreliable.
The Delhi bench of the Income Tax Appellate Tribunal quashed a revision against senior advocate Mukul Rohatgi for AY 2020–21, holding that reopening his Rs 133.46 crore assessment lacked legal basis and could not rest on mere re-inquiry alone.
The Allahabad High Court set aside a Bareilly family court order denying maintenance to a woman, on assumptions about her income as a YouTuber. The Court held maintenance cannot be denied without examining both spouses’ actual earnings carefully.
