2005 (9) TMI 561

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.... Havanur, SDR, for the Respondent. [Order per : T.K. Jayaraman, Member (T)].- This is an appeal against Order-in-Appeal No. 2/2002 dt. 31-1-2002 passed by the Commissioner of Central Excise (Appeals), Hyderabad. 2. The brief facts of the case are as follows. The appellants are the manufacturers of steel tubes, an excisable commodity. The anti evasion officers visited the appellants u....

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....proceed against the Bond executed by the appellant at the time of provisional release of goods. Further, the Commissioner (Appeals) observed that the goods provisionally released would not be subjected to confiscation and redemption fine and set aside the confiscation and redemption fine. In view of the Commissioner's observation, the Additional Commissioner took action to encash the bank guarante....

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....e effect that the Department was at liberty to proceed against the bond executed at the time of provisional release of goods cannot be taken as a direction as in the operative portion of the order, the confiscation of the goods ordered in the Order-in-Original dated 31-10-1997 and the redemption fine had been set aside without any condition or riders. In other words, the Commissioner held that the....