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Issues: (i) Whether denatured ethyl alcohol was shown to be dutiable under Tariff Heading 2204 on the material placed on record; (ii) whether the show cause notice was barred by limitation.
Issue (i): Whether denatured ethyl alcohol was shown to be dutiable under Tariff Heading 2204 on the material placed on record.
Analysis: The product composition was not satisfactorily established in the present matter. The relied-upon material did not fully disclose the water content, whereas the earlier decisions cited as support were based on a specific composition showing alcohol at 94% and water as the balance. On that footing, the claim that the appellant had substantiated its case on dutiability was not accepted.
Conclusion: The appellant did not establish the case against dutiability on the material available.
Issue (ii): Whether the show cause notice was barred by limitation.
Analysis: The record showed that the department was aware of the manufacture of denatured spirit by the appellant well before the notice, including through the departmental correspondence referring to examination of the issue of dutiability. In that situation, the notice issued after the normal period of six months was held to be beyond limitation.
Conclusion: The show cause notice was barred by limitation.
Final Conclusion: The duty demand and the penalty were set aside, and the appeal was disposed of in favour of the appellant.
Ratio Decidendi: Where the department has prior knowledge of the relevant activity, a notice issued beyond the normal limitation period cannot sustain the demand.
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