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Section 69C of the Income-tax Act, 1961—Unexplained expenditure—It is a trite law that a substantive provision cannot be given retrospective effect unless statute provides for, its only when any beneficial provision is brought in the statute to undo any hardship and or remove any mischief, then such an amended provision is given retrospective effect. If the purchases made from the parties have been duly accounted for and are part of trading account and neither the debits side nor the credit side of the trading results have been disturbed nor books of accounts have been rejected, then no addition on account of sundry creditors can be made, accordingly, the addition as confirmed by the CIT( A) is confirmed and additions stands deleted — ITO vs. Swati Housing & Construction (P.) Ltd.[2020] 180 Itd 854 (Del)