1997 (8) TMI 273

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....thority has held that the appellants had used the input material as set out in the notification and the same was clearly recognisable as non-duty paid and has, therefore, denied the benefit of the exemption notification. 2. The learned Advocate for the appellants while conceding that in a similar case the Tribunal has taken a view that in a case like that of the appellants, the benefit of notification has been held to be not available. He has pleaded that he has some fresh pleas to make in this regard. Narrating the facts of the case, he has pleaded that the appellants are manufacturers of moulds and the buyers of the moulds after they have used the same over a period of time and when the moulds have become unusable, they send the s....

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....arned JDR for the department. He has pleaded that the appellants having not been able to establish that the unusable moulds which were in the nature of scrap had suffered Central Excise duty and, therefore, the mischief of the proviso to the notification would be attracted. He has also pleaded that in case the duty has not been demanded on the unusable moulds which were in the nature of the scrap, that would not by itself change the character of the unusable mould as being non-duty paid item. He has pleaded that the moment the item could not be used as a mould, it lost its character as such and became only a scrap. It was only out of this scrap, he pleaded that a new mould came to be manufactured. The scrap in question did not suffer any du....