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Issues: (i) Whether cement concrete building blocks were entitled to the benefit of Notification No. 64/88 as components or intermediates of pre-fabricated buildings or as goods of a kind used in such buildings; (ii) Whether demands raised for the normal period and the extended period of limitation were sustainable, and whether penalties were warranted.
Issue (i): Whether cement concrete building blocks were entitled to the benefit of Notification No. 64/88 as components or intermediates of pre-fabricated buildings or as goods of a kind used in such buildings.
Analysis: The exemption was confined to blocks, slabs, lintels, concrete beams and stairs constituting intermediates or components of pre-fabricated buildings. The goods in question were identical to those previously considered by the Tribunal and the Supreme Court, which held that such concrete blocks were used in masonry work and were merely substitutes for bricks in ordinary construction. The later amendment substituting the phrase "of a kind used in the pre-fabricated buildings" did not assist the assessee, because the blocks were admittedly used in walls, buildings or flooring and the assessee failed to establish use in pre-fabricated buildings.
Conclusion: The benefit of Notification No. 64/88 was not available to the assessee.
Issue (ii): Whether demands raised for the normal period and the extended period of limitation were sustainable, and whether penalties were warranted.
Analysis: Where classification was only provisionally approved, limitation did not arise. For demands pertaining to finally approved classifications, the record did not show suppression or misstatement with intent to evade duty, since the relevant facts were already within the knowledge of the revenue. On that basis, invocation of the extended period was not justified. As the dispute turned on classification and the assessee had not acted with culpable intent, penalties were also not sustainable.
Conclusion: Demands were sustainable only within the normal period of limitation, provisional assessments were not hit by limitation, and penalties were not warranted.
Final Conclusion: The exemption claim failed on merits, but the demands were confined to the normal period wherever final approval existed, and penalties were set aside.
Ratio Decidendi: Goods must fall within the precise scope of an exemption notification as interpreted by the binding precedent, and the extended period of limitation cannot be invoked absent suppression or misstatement with intent to evade duty.
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