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2001 (7) TMI 467
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....rder]. - This appeal is directed against confiscation of copper wire valued around Rs. 2 lakhs with option to redeem on the payment of fine of Rs. 10,000/-, imposition of penalty of Rs. 10,000/- on the appellant and confiscation of Matador Van with an option to redeem on a fine of Rs. 5,000/-. 2. Facts of the case are that Central Excise Officers visited the appellant's factory on 1-8-1....
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....n of three shifts per day were to be accounted everyday at 11 o'clock and that on the date of stock taking, the officers visited the unit at 10 o'clock i.e. before previous day's production could be entered in the statutory record. They also submitted that the goods under confiscation had already been released provisionally and therefore, they were not available for confiscation. They have submitt....
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....destinely producing goods and clearing them without payment of duty. The learned DR has stressed that the loading of unaccounted goods into the truck pointed only to removal of the goods without entering them in statutory accounts and without payment of duty. He, therefore, submitted that the finding against the appellant are reasonable. He also pointed out that there is no justification for reduc....