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Issues: (i) Whether the extended period of limitation could be invoked for recovery of duty. (ii) Whether duty was payable on iron used in the manufacture of steel melting scrap cleared under the relevant exemption notifications and Chapter X procedure.
Issue (i): Whether the extended period of limitation could be invoked for recovery of duty.
Analysis: The Department was aware of the manufacturing process in the integrated steel plant. The show-cause notices did not allege suppression of facts, and the record did not support a finding of deliberate concealment or intent to evade duty. In the absence of suppression, invocation of the extended limitation period was not justified.
Conclusion: The extended period of limitation could not be invoked, and the demand was confined to the normal period of six months prior to the notices.
Issue (ii): Whether duty was payable on iron used in the manufacture of steel melting scrap cleared under the relevant exemption notifications and Chapter X procedure.
Analysis: Iron in crude form had been used captively in producing steel melting scrap, but no duty had been paid at the iron stage. The steel melting scrap was cleared without payment of duty and without compliance with the Chapter X procedure required by the exemption notification. The notifications relied upon were treated as operating together in the scheme of manufacture and clearance, and the benefit of exemption was unavailable where the prescribed procedure and conditions were not satisfied.
Conclusion: Duty was payable on the steel melting scrap, but recovery was restricted to the period within limitation.
Final Conclusion: The duty demand was sustained only to the extent permissible within the normal limitation period, and the appeal failed save for that restriction.
Ratio Decidendi: Where the Department cannot prove suppression or intent to evade, the extended limitation period is unavailable; and exemption from excise duty depends on strict compliance with the prescribed procedural conditions.
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