https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=271312 Under the Central Excise Act, remand to judicial custody depends on compliance with the forwarding procedure: an arrested person must be produced before an officer empowered to send the person to a Magistrate, and remand obtained without that authorisation is invalid. On the separate issue of bail status, tentative rather than final quantification of alleged duty evasion did not prevent treatment of the offence as cognizable and non-bailable where the alleged evasion exceeded the statutory threshold. The remand order was therefore quashed and release ordered because the statutory procedure for forwarding and remand was not followed. en-us Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0530 Sat, 15 Oct 2016 17:56:00 +0530 TaxTMI RSS Generator https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=271312 Under the Central Excise Act, remand to judicial custody depends on compliance with the forwarding procedure: an arrested person must be produced before an officer empowered to send the person to a Magistrate, and remand obtained without that authorisation is invalid. On the separate issue of bail status, tentative rather than final quantification of alleged duty evasion did not prevent treatment of the offence as cognizable and non-bailable where the alleged evasion exceeded the statutory threshold. The remand order was therefore quashed and release ordered because the statutory procedure for forwarding and remand was not followed. Case-Laws Central Excise Mon, 25 Jan 2016 00:00:00 +0530 https://www.taxtmi.com/caselaws?id=271312