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Issues: Whether penalty under the central excise law was justified where the assessee claimed a bona fide belief that potato chips were not dutiable and asserted that the process involved only dehydration.
Analysis: The assessee failed to produce reliable evidence of the manufacturing process or of the claimed technical basis for exclusion from Chapter 20. The record indicated that the process involved frying of potato slices in edible oil, and the assessee had already accepted classification and paid duty. The correspondence with the department was found to convey half-truths and to suggest an attempt to mislead the authorities rather than a genuine mistaken belief. In these circumstances, the explanation of bona fide conduct was rejected, and the imposition of penalty was held to be warranted.
Conclusion: The penalty was upheld and the challenge to it failed.
Final Conclusion: The appeal did not succeed on the issue of penalty, and the adverse order on penalty was sustained.
Ratio Decidendi: A claim of bona fide belief will not protect an assessee from penalty where the assessee fails to substantiate the factual basis of non-liability and is found to have misled the department about the nature of manufacture and duty liability.
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