Refund / return on amount collected during investigation - in...

Refund / return on amount collected during investigation - in the absence of any material to establish that there was any order or adjudication made by the respondents quantifying the amount of tax / duty payable by the petitioner as on the date of collecting / recovering the same during investigation, the respondents were clearly not entitled to recover the same, leading to the sole inference that the respondents are liable to refund the amount collected by them. - HC