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Issues: (i) Whether redemption fine could be sustained when re-export of the imported goods was permitted. (ii) Whether the personal penalty could be sustained when the valuation was founded on inferences without supporting evidence.
Issue (i): Whether redemption fine could be sustained when re-export of the imported goods was permitted.
Analysis: The facility to re-export had already been granted. Where re-export is allowed, the basis for imposing redemption fine does not survive on the facts found by the Tribunal. The reliance placed on the Tribunal's earlier view supported the proposition that redemption fine is not warranted in such circumstances.
Conclusion: The redemption fine was not sustainable and was set aside in favour of the assessee.
Issue (ii): Whether the personal penalty could be sustained when the valuation was founded on inferences without supporting evidence.
Analysis: The Commissioner had proceeded on surmises rather than on evidence. No contemporaneous imports were shown, no material was placed to reject the declared transaction value at the threshold, and the record did not support a penal finding based on undervaluation. In the absence of evidentiary foundation, the penalty could not be upheld.
Conclusion: The personal penalty was not justified and was set aside in favour of the assessee.
Final Conclusion: The appeal succeeded to the extent that both the redemption fine and the personal penalty were annulled, while the rest of the controversy was not separately adjudicated.
Ratio Decidendi: Where re-export is permitted, redemption fine is not warranted, and a penalty for undervaluation cannot be sustained without reliable evidence establishing rejection of the declared value.
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