2004 (1) TMI 420

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....ntendent of Central Excise, for the Appellant. Shri S. Jaikumar, Advocate, for the Respondent. [Order]. -  The factual matrix of the case is in a short compass. The capricious capers of a Chemical Examiner who keeps oscillating between two view points has precipitated two rounds of litigation culminating at the table of the Commissioner (Appeals). The first round of litigation arose ....

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....n appeal before me. 3. From the case records I find that the Chemical Examiner has come up with a truly bewildering performance of confusion and inconsistency. The compendium of contradictions would have made any Assistant Commissioner enter into a state of Hamletian hamartia. Fortunately this Lower Adjudicator who was compelled to resort to a management of contradictions sought to shift t....