Admission of additional evidence under remand rules must await a meaningful remand report; failure to do so breaches natural justice and mandates rema...
Export Obligation Discharge Certificates for EPCG compliance cannot be questioned by Customs unless DGFT adjudicates and cancels them, so demands quas...
Liability for short-levied customs duty arising from a Customs House Agents substitution and misappropriation was examined; where importers bona fide tendered payment by demand drafts to their CHA and documentary bank evidence supported that tender, liability for unpaid duty and penalties was attributed to the CHAs misconduct and not to the importers, resulting in annulment of the demand and penalties. The consequences of forged or substituted Bills of Entry, misappropriation of deposit accounts, and implications for MODVAT/central excise credit claims and supervision of bonded procedures were addressed as collateral issues.
Liability for short-levied customs duty arising from a Customs House Agents substitution and misappropriation was examined; where importers bona fide tendered payment by demand drafts to their CHA and documentary bank evidence supported that tender, liability for unpaid duty and penalties was attributed to the CHAs misconduct and not to the importers, resulting in annulment of the demand and penalties. The consequences of forged or substituted Bills of Entry, misappropriation of deposit accounts, and implications for MODVAT/central excise credit claims and supervision of bonded procedures were addressed as collateral issues.
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