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Issues: Whether the alleged recording in the order sheet amounted to a rectifiable mistake warranting relief under section 35C(2) of the Central Excise Act, 1944, and what consequential directions should follow for listing of the appeals.
Analysis: The recorded note of proceedings was treated as a note of hearing and not as an operative order in the appeal. Since the date mentioned in the note had already passed and the matter was already fixed for a later hearing, no surviving grievance was found on that aspect. In these circumstances, the matter was held not to justify a rectification application in the nature of a substantive challenge to the appeal proceedings.
Conclusion: The request for rectification was not accepted as a basis for interfering with the appeal proceedings, though limited relief was granted by directing fresh hearing arrangements and notice to the parties.
Final Conclusion: The application was only partly accepted, with the Tribunal declining to treat the earlier note as a ground for substantive rectification while issuing consequential directions for future hearing.
Ratio Decidendi: A mere note of proceedings, not constituting an operative order, does not ordinarily give rise to a rectifiable mistake under section 35C(2) unless a surviving legal grievance remains.