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Issues: Whether penalty under Rule 96ZQ(5)(ii) of the Central Excise Rules, 1944 could be sustained for delayed payment of duty where the duty liability was fixed under the compounded levy scheme and the scheme had been held unconstitutional.
Analysis: The duty liability arose from the compounded levy mechanism under Rule 96ZQ of the Central Excise Rules, 1944 read with Section 3A of the Central Excise Act and the annual capacity fixed under Rule 3 of the Hot Air Stenter Independent Textile Processors Annual Capacity Determination Rules, 1998. The rule fixing capacity had been struck down as unconstitutional, rendering the duty liability based on that capacity ab initio illegal. On that footing alone, a penalty for delay in payment of such duty could not stand. Independently, the factual matrix showed that the assessee had followed the Commissioner's orders for the relevant months, and the corrigenda correcting those orders were received much later. The delay, where any, was minimal and did not justify the maximum penalty.
Conclusion: Penalty under Rule 96ZQ(5)(ii) was not sustainable and was set aside in favour of the assessee.
Ratio Decidendi: Where the underlying duty liability under a compounded levy scheme is rendered illegal by invalidation of the enabling rule, a penalty predicated solely on delay in payment of that liability cannot be sustained, and discretion in penalty matters must be exercised proportionately.
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