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Issues: (i) Whether interest, redemption fine, and penalty could be levied on IGST demanded under the Customs Tariff Act for the period before the amendment to section 3(12) of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 on 16.08.2024; (ii) Whether the underlying IGST demand and recovery were sustainable.
Issue (i): Whether interest, redemption fine, and penalty could be levied on IGST demanded under the Customs Tariff Act for the period before the amendment to section 3(12) of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 on 16.08.2024.
Analysis: The unamended section 3(12) of the Customs Tariff Act, 1975 was treated as not carrying a specific legislative incorporation of the Customs Act provisions relating to interest, offences, and penalties for IGST levied under section 3(7) of that Act. The amendment introducing such consequences was held to operate prospectively from 16.08.2024. On that basis, interest under section 28AA of the Customs Act, 1962, confiscatory redemption fine under section 125 of the Customs Act, 1962, and penalty under section 112(a) of the Customs Act, 1962 could not be imposed for the earlier period.
Conclusion: The levy of interest, redemption fine, and penalty was not sustainable and was set aside in favour of the assessee.
Issue (ii): Whether the underlying IGST demand and recovery were sustainable.
Analysis: The absence of a valid basis for interest, redemption fine, and penalty did not affect the substantive liability to pay IGST on the goods. The demand and recovery of IGST were therefore maintained.
Conclusion: The IGST demand and recovery were upheld in favour of the revenue.
Final Conclusion: The order was modified by deleting the ancillary levy of interest, redemption fine, and penalty while sustaining the IGST demand itself, leaving the appeal successful only to that limited extent.
Ratio Decidendi: Where the statutory provision governing IGST levy did not, prior to amendment, specifically extend the Customs Act consequences of interest, confiscatory fine, and penalty, those consequences could not be imposed for the pre-amendment period.
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