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Issues: Whether Modvat credit taken on duty-paid inputs at one unit could be utilised for payment of duty on the final product manufactured at another unit through a duty-free intermediate product cleared under Notification No. 217/86-C.E., and whether reversal of credit was required on the footing that the intermediate product was fully exempt.
Analysis: Notification No. 217/86-C.E. was treated as a special and purposive exemption intended to avoid cascading and unnecessary paper work where a manufacturer uses duty-paid inputs to produce a dutiable final product through a wholly exempt intermediate product captively consumed by the same manufacturer, even at another factory. The two units were treated as one for the purpose of the notification and, therefore, also for utilisation of Modvat credit. The Tribunal held that the procedure followed during the relevant period was not incorrect, that procedural deviations should not defeat a substantive benefit, and that the contrary view was distinguishable on facts.
Conclusion: The assessee was entitled to utilise the credit in the manner adopted, and reversal of Modvat credit was not warranted.
Ratio Decidendi: Where a notification is designed to prevent cascading on captively consumed exempt intermediates, procedural formality cannot be used to deny the substantive credit benefit if the final dutiable product is manufactured by the same assessee through another unit treated as one for the purpose of the scheme.
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