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Issues: Whether timing belts imported for use in a draw texturising machine were entitled to exemption under Notification No. 21/2002 even if they were classifiable under a different tariff heading.
Analysis: The exemption entry covered machinery and parts for use in the specified industry. The decisive question was whether the goods were established to be parts of the relevant machine. Relying on the principle that exemption for parts cannot be denied merely because the parts are classified under some other heading, the Court held that once the imported item is shown to be a part of the machine covered by the notification, the alternate tariff classification does not defeat the exemption. The certificate from the jurisdictional excise authority showed that the timing belt was a part of the draw texturising machine.
Conclusion: The timing belts were eligible for the benefit of the exemption notification, and the contrary classification based denial was unsustainable.
Final Conclusion: The impugned order was set aside and the appeal was allowed on the basis that the imported goods qualified as parts of the covered machine for the purposes of the exemption.
Ratio Decidendi: Where an exemption notification grants benefit to parts of specified machinery, the benefit cannot be denied merely because the parts are classified under another tariff heading, so long as they are proved to be parts of the notified machine.