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Sec. 132(1)(c) & 132B of Income-tax Act, 1961 — Search and seizure — The term "reason to believe" cannot be interpreted and construed as "reason to suspect". The reason to suspect that the assessee has undisclosed assets, and that there is likelihood that the same would not be disclosed, does not amount to saying that there are reasons to believe that the assessee is in possession of undisclosed assets, and intends to evade tax. Reasons were not recorded before undertaking the search and was completely unauthorized and a high-handed action on the part of the revenue and the revenue do not state that jewellery was concealed, or was kept by the assessee surreptitiously. Merely because the assessee was in possession of the same, it cannot be said that the same represents income or property which has not been disclosed or will not be disclosed — Khem Chand Mukim vs. Pr. DIT [2020] 313 CTR 14 (DEL)