GST adjudication involving penalty or other adverse liability...

GST adjudication involving penalty or other adverse liability requires an opportunity of personal hearing. A show-cause notice stating that personal hearing is inapplicable, followed by an adjudication order without a hearing, breaches the statutory hearing requirement and principles of natural justice; a hearing in an unrelated earlier matter does not cure that defect. Section 74A(8)(ii) allows payment of tax and applicable interest within 60 days of the show-cause notice without penalty, with proceedings deemed concluded. Adjudication before expiry of that payment period contravenes the provision. Orders issued in breach of either requirement are unsustainable.