IN THE INCOME TAX APPELLATE TRIBUNAL
                DELHI BENCHES : E : NEW DELHI

     BEFORE SHRI R.S. SYAL, AM AND SHRI RAJPAL YADAV, JM

                        ITA No.393/Del/2013
                     Assessment Year : 2008-09


Meena Rani Arora,                 Vs.   ACIT,
201, Vipps Centre,                      Central Circle-22,
2-Community Centre,                     New Delhi.
Masjid Moth, GK-II,
New Delhi.

PAN : AAKPA2806N

     (Appellant)                           (Respondent)

              Assessee By     :    Shri Sanat Kapoor, Advocate
              Department By   :    Shri Gunjan Prashad, CIT, DR

                                  ORDER

PER R.S. SYAL, AM:


       This appeal by the assessee is directed against the order

passed by the CIT (A) on 19.11.2012 in relation to the assessment

year 2008-09.


2.     The only issue raised through various grounds is against the

estimation of annual letting value (ALV) of the Shimla property at

`1,80,000/-.
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3.   Briefly stated, the facts of the case are that the assessee

had two house properties, one situated at Delhi and the other at

Shimla in the previous year relevant to the assessment year

under consideration.     The Assessing Officer called upon the

assessee to furnish details of their location and usage, which the

assessee did not. As the assessee had not offered any income

from house property, the AO required the assessee to explain as

to why annual letting value (ALV) of one of these two properties

be not assessed on notional basis. In the absence of any reply

given by the assessee, the AO estimated ALV of the property at

Shimla at `1,80,000/-. After allowing statutory deduction u/s 24

@30%, he computed `Income from house property' at `1,26,000/-.

No relief was allowed in the first appeal.







4.   After considering the rival submissions and perusing the

relevant material on record, it is observed that the assessee

unsuccessfully tried to build a case before us about the Shimla

property being not in inhabitable state requiring no determination

of ALV. No evidence worth the name has been placed on record

in support of such contention.     It is seen from the submissions


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made before the ld. CIT(A) that the assessee, apart from making

the above submission, also contended that the ALV should be

estimated at a lower rate. This belies the claim of non-habitable

condition of the Shimla property. However, it is discernible from

the assessment order, that the AO         estimated the ALV of this

property at `1,80,000/- without any basis whatsoever. The ld. AR

undertook to extend full cooperation to the AO if the matter of

computation of the ALV of such property was restored for fresh

adjudication. Under such circumstances, we are of the considered

opinion that the ends of justice would meet adequately if the

impugned order on this issue is set aside and the matter is

restored to the file of AO. We order accordingly and direct the AO

to determine the ALV of Shimla property as per law, after allowing

a reasonable opportunity of being heard to the assessee.







5.    In the result, the appeal is allowed for statistical purposes.


      The order pronounced in the open court on 14.10.2014.

           Sd/-                                         Sd/-

      [RAJPAL YADAV]                              [R.S. SYAL]
     JUDICIAL MEMBER                          ACCOUNTANT MEMBER

Dated, 14th October, 2014.

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Copy forwarded to:

     1.   Appellant
     2.   Respondent
     3.   CIT
     4.   CIT (A)
     5.   DR, ITAT

                           AR, ITAT, NEW DELHI.




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