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Issues: Whether Modvat credit could be denied merely because the Bill of Entry carried the address of another unit of the same assessee, and whether credit remained admissible where the inputs were claimed to have been received and used in the factory taking credit.
Analysis: The dispute turned on the identity of the recipient unit and the physical receipt of the imported inputs. It was noted that the assessee had two units with the same importer code, and that the Modvat scheme required maintenance of receipt, storage and utilisation records in RG 23A Part I, which enabled departmental verification of receipt in the user factory. Earlier Tribunal decisions had accepted credit where the Bill of Entry named a different unit, head office or related address, so long as the recipient manufacturer was identifiable and the inputs were used in the factory taking credit. On that basis, the mere discrepancy in the address on the Bill of Entry was not treated as conclusive to deny credit.
Conclusion: Modvat credit was held admissible to the assessee despite the difference in address on the Bill of Entry, subject to the department's liberty to verify physical receipt of the inputs in the user factory.