2000 (8) TMI 330

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.... JDR, for the Respondent. [Order per : Gowri Shankar, Member (T)]. - The applicant is absent and unrepresented. 2. After having read the stay application, we find that the appeal itself can be decided and therefore proceed to do so after waiving deposit of the penalty imposed on the applicant. 3. The appellants M/s. Chowhan Exports Limited applied for and was granted an advan....

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....eproduced below : "Whether the duty has not been levied or has been short-levied or the interest has not been charged or paid or has been part paid or the duty or interest has been erroneously refunded by reason of collusion or any wilful mis-statement or suppression of facts, the person who is liable to pay the duty or interest, as the case may be, as determined under sub-section (2) of sectio....

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....osed set aside. 8. We have in the past disposed of numerous appeals against imposition of penalty under section 114A of the Act on persons who are not the importers and not liable to pay duty or interest. We allowed each of these appeals, reiterating our finding that penalty was not imposable under section 114A on the person other than the importer who is liable to pay duty or interest. Th....