2006 (11) TMI 405

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....ant. Shri Uma Shankar, SDR, for the Respondent. [Order per : Jyoti Balasundaram, Vice-President]. - The above appeal arises out of the order of the Commissioner of Central Excise who has confirmed a duty demand of Rs. 1,85,09,688/-against the appellants, under the provisions of Section 11D(3) of the Central Excise Act, 1944, holding that the entire amount of Rs. 4,29,32,929/- collected by....

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....ered by clause (iv) of the second proviso to Rule 173C(1), being goods removed in a manner which did not involve sale. The contention of the appellants that the provisions of Section 11D are not attracted in cases where goods are removed/cleared without effecting their sale, therefore, has substance, in the light of the Apex Court's decision in paragraph 97 of the judgment in Mafatlal Industries L....

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....anufacturer who is the supplier of grey fabric to the processor and to whom the processor returns the processed fabrics, is not tenable for the reason that only in the case of a sale transaction there will be a buyer of goods, and the case of the department itself is that no sale was involved in the transaction between the grey fabric supplier (merchant-manufacturer) and the processor. 4. ....

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....y them for collection of excise duty and no debit notes were separately raised for the collection of any charges but after the introduction of such scheme, they continued to collect processing charges through commercial bills but started raising debit notes for handling and service charges. For this reason also, we agree with the appellants that the provisions of Section 11D are not attracted in t....