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Issues: (i) Whether demand, interest and penalty were sustainable where Cenvat credit had been reversed before utilisation. (ii) Whether Cenvat credit could be denied on input services received before commencement of output services.
Issue (i): Whether demand, interest and penalty were sustainable where Cenvat credit had been reversed before utilisation.
Analysis: The credit amounts were reversed before they were utilised. The demand based on such unutilised credit could not be sustained. The further demand computed under Rule 6(3) of the Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004 also could not survive once the related credit had already been reversed before utilisation.
Conclusion: The demand, interest and penalty on this issue were set aside in favour of the assessee.
Issue (ii): Whether Cenvat credit could be denied on input services received before commencement of output services.
Analysis: The Cenvat Credit Rules, 2004 did not require that output services must already be under provision at the very moment when input services are received and credit is taken. Mere absence of contemporaneous output service did not, by itself, make the credit inadmissible.
Conclusion: The denial of credit on this ground was unsustainable and the issue was decided in favour of the assessee.
Final Conclusion: The impugned order was set aside and the appeal was allowed with consequential relief.
Ratio Decidendi: Cenvat credit cannot be denied or demand confirmed where the credit is reversed before utilisation, and the availability of credit on input services is not dependent on simultaneous commencement of output services unless the rules expressly so provide.
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