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Issues: (i) Whether Rule 8(4) of the Central Excise Rules, 2001 and 2002 is ultra vires and liable to be struck down. (ii) Whether the demand and recovery proceedings could be sustained in full or were liable to be set aside wholly or partly, with remand for fresh consideration.
Issue (i): Whether Rule 8(4) of the Central Excise Rules, 2001 and 2002 is ultra vires and liable to be struck down.
Analysis: The challenge to Rule 8(4) was accepted as being covered by the earlier decision concerning a provision in pari materia. The rule was assailed as inconsistent with the Cenvat Credit framework and as arbitrary and violative of equality. As the same reasoning was held applicable, the validity of the impugned rule could not be sustained.
Conclusion: The challenge succeeded, and Rule 8(4) of the Central Excise Rules, 2001 and 2002 was struck down in favour of the assessee.
Issue (ii): Whether the demand and recovery proceedings could be sustained in full or were liable to be set aside wholly or partly, with remand for fresh consideration.
Analysis: The impugned demand and recovery orders were held to be covered in part by the setting aside of the rule. To that extent, they were quashed. For the remaining demand, the assessee was afforded an opportunity to make further submissions before the assessing authority, and the matter was directed to be heard afresh and decided within a fixed time.
Conclusion: The demand and recovery proceedings were set aside only to the extent covered by the invalidated rule, and the remaining matter was remitted for fresh hearing and decision.
Final Conclusion: The writ petitions were disposed of by granting partial relief to the assessee through invalidation of the impugned rule, partial setting aside of the consequential demands, and a limited remand for reconsideration of the surviving demand.
Ratio Decidendi: A rule that is in pari materia with an earlier provision already held unsustainable cannot be maintained, and consequential demands founded on such a rule are liable to be set aside to the extent they rest on that invalid foundation.
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