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Issues: (i) Whether the articles cleared along with the pumps were classifiable independently under tariff item 68 and, if so, whether they were entitled to exemption under Notification No. 118/75-C.E. on captive use; (ii) Whether penalty under Rule 173Q was sustainable.
Issue (i): Whether the articles cleared along with the pumps were classifiable independently under tariff item 68 and, if so, whether they were entitled to exemption under Notification No. 118/75-C.E. on captive use.
Analysis: The goods were treated as separately assessable items rather than as part of the complete pump set. The duty demand, however, could not stand once it was found that the items were used in the appellant's own factory in the manufacture of pumps and were covered by the exemption available to goods falling under tariff item 68 when manufactured for use in the same factory. The exemption under Notification No. 118/75-C.E. was held applicable on the facts.
Conclusion: The duty demand was not sustainable and was set aside in favour of the assessee.
Issue (ii): Whether penalty under Rule 173Q was sustainable.
Analysis: Once the duty demand itself was found unsustainable under the applicable exemption, the foundation for penalty disappeared. No separate basis was accepted for sustaining the penal consequence.
Conclusion: The penalty under Rule 173Q was not upheld and was set aside in favour of the assessee.
Final Conclusion: The impugned order was reversed in substance, with both the excise demand and the penalty being annulled.
Ratio Decidendi: Where goods classifiable under tariff item 68 are manufactured and used captively in the same factory, the exemption notification applicable to such captive use must be given effect, and a penalty cannot survive once the underlying duty demand fails.
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