1998 (9) TMI 171

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.... The appeal is directed against the order of the Commissioner of Central Excise (Appeals), Mumbai, by which he has upheld the order of the Asstt. Commissioner of Central Excise, Division K-I, dated 17-10-1992. In that order the Asstt. Commissioner had confirmed the demand for Rs. 21,313.33 being inadmissible modvat credit availed of by the appellants. The appellants were availing of modvat cr....

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.... for the appellants, submitted that in similar circumstances in their own case, this Bench of the Tribunal has held that subsidiary gate pass in favour of the assessee being prescribed document is acceptable document for modvat credit as reported in 1996 (87) E.L.T. 526 (Tribunal). 3. The ld. D.R. Shri K.L. Ramtake, for the department, however, pointed out that this decision is distinguishab....

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....at the subsidiary gate pass cannot be brushed aside for the purpose of modvat credit as it is a prescribed document during the material period and that such gate pass was in favour of the appellants. However, the Tribunal observed that all the same, when payment for purchase of goods was made to another party as against the name of the supplier furnished in the subsidiary gate pass, it is incumben....