Search and seizure: abatement of earlier search bars use of prior seized material in later search-based assessments; relief limited to new documents f...
Admission of additional evidence under remand rules must await a meaningful remand report; failure to do so breaches natural justice and mandates rema...
Demand of excise duty based solely on shortage of finished goods detected on physical verification was held unsustainable because mere shortage, absent corroborative evidence, does not establish clandestine removal; the demand and allied penalty were set aside. Cenvat credit on steel items used for base structures/shades and related works was held admissible since the contrary Larger Bench view stood overturned and the amended input definition supported credit; denial was set aside. Credit on capital goods received after the unit became operational was allowed as timing of receipt, without dispute on receipt/use, is not a bar. Where the show cause notice invoked the extended period on interpretational issues, extended limitation failed and, the notice being composite, the entire demand (including normal period) was quashed; consequential relief followed. - CESTAT
Demand of excise duty based solely on shortage of finished goods detected on physical verification was held unsustainable because mere shortage, absent corroborative evidence, does not establish clandestine removal; the demand and allied penalty were set aside. Cenvat credit on steel items used for base structures/shades and related works was held admissible since the contrary Larger Bench view stood overturned and the amended input definition supported credit; denial was set aside. Credit on capital goods received after the unit became operational was allowed as timing of receipt, without dispute on receipt/use, is not a bar. Where the show cause notice invoked the extended period on interpretational issues, extended limitation failed and, the notice being composite, the entire demand (including normal period) was quashed; consequential relief followed. - CESTAT
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