Request-driven road restoration attracts reverse-charge GST, not governmental-function treatment or compensatory-damages status for business recipient...
Road restoration charges for commercial pipeline works are taxable Government services, with reverse charge liability and no public-function exemption...
Model-wise import cap monitoring cannot justify withholding used multifunction machines where all-India tracking is absent and full security is furnis...
For non-notified betel nuts, the burden under Section 123 remains on Revenue to prove their smuggled character and cannot be discharged by assumptions, presumptions or uncorroborated statements. Transport documents identifying consignors in Mizoram and consignees in West Bengal do not establish cross-border movement. An expert opinion that samples merely appear to originate from the North-East, including the Myanmar region, is inconclusive of Myanmar origin. Without reliable proof of foreign origin and illicit importation, absolute confiscation of the goods and consequential penalties cannot be sustained.
For non-notified betel nuts, the burden under Section 123 remains on Revenue to prove their smuggled character and cannot be discharged by assumptions, presumptions or uncorroborated statements. Transport documents identifying consignors in Mizoram and consignees in West Bengal do not establish cross-border movement. An expert opinion that samples merely appear to originate from the North-East, including the Myanmar region, is inconclusive of Myanmar origin. Without reliable proof of foreign origin and illicit importation, absolute confiscation of the goods and consequential penalties cannot be sustained.
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