Excise classification of micronutrient mixtures kept pending, with recovery proceedings stayed until the Supreme Court decides the issue.

Classification of micronutrient mixtures for excise purposes and the resulting demand remained unresolved in the writ petitions, and the impugned proceedings were directed to stay in abeyance pending the Supreme Court's decision. The operative effect was that no coercive recovery steps were to be taken until the Supreme Court decided the underlying classification issue.

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Outcome: The writ petitions concerning the classification dispute over micronutrient mixtures and the consequential excise demand were disposed of by directing that the impugned proceedings remain in abeyance pending the decision of the Supreme Court, with no coercive recovery steps to be taken in the meantime.

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