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Issues: Whether the appellate authority could reject a refund claim by reopening the classification and duty liability on goods when that issue had already attained finality.
Analysis: The refund claim arose from duty paid on paper wrapper after the classification and duty demand in respect of that product had already been set aside in earlier proceedings. That determination had attained finality when the departmental challenge was dismissed by the Tribunal. In such circumstances, the appellate authority could not treat the earlier final decision as merely persuasive and could not examine or disturb the settled classification and duty liability while dealing only with the refund sanction. Once the duty demand had been finally decided in favour of the assessee, there was no basis to deny the refund sanctioned by the original authority.
Conclusion: The rejection of refund was unsustainable and the issue had to be decided in favour of the assessee.
Final Conclusion: The order denying refund was set aside and the refund sanctioned by the original authority was restored, with consequential relief.
Ratio Decidendi: A settled and final determination on classification and duty liability cannot be reopened in refund proceedings to defeat a refund otherwise arising from that final adjudication.
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