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Issues: Whether penalty could be sustained under Rule 173Q in respect of shortage noticed on stock-taking in a bonded warehouse, and whether the quantum of penalty required reduction.
Analysis: Rule 223A provided for stock-taking in a bonded warehouse and for duty and a limited penalty in cases of shortage. Rule 173Q, read with Rule 173A(1), was held to have wider operation and to prevail where shortages in accounted excisable goods in a warehouse were concerned. The shortage of tobacco was not disputed, but the charge of unauthorised removal under Rule 173Q(1)(a) was treated as not pursued, and the matter was confined to failure to account for goods under Rule 173Q(1)(b). On penalty, the governing principle was that penalty is not to be imposed merely because it is lawful to do so and that discretion must be exercised judicially having regard to all relevant circumstances.
Conclusion: Penalty under Rule 173Q was maintainable, but the original penalty was excessive and was reduced to Rs. 60,000.
Final Conclusion: The duty demand was left undisturbed, while the penalty was substantially scaled down in the interests of justice.
Ratio Decidendi: Where a bonded-warehouse shortage falls within the wider ambit of Rule 173Q and the competing provisions are governed by Rule 173A(1), penalty may be sustained, but its quantum must be fixed judicially and proportionately on the facts of the case.
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