2007 (1) TMI 305

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....nt. Shri R.B. Pardeshi, JDR, for the Respondent. [Order per : Jyoti Balasundaram, Vice-President]. -  We have heard both sides on the appeal against the confirmation of central excise duty demand of Rs. 23,96,506/- on MS plates found short in the factory of the appellants during the period April 1996 to February 1998, April 1998 and August 1998, on the basis of the fact that actual c....

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....tural & Engg. Ltd. & others v. CCE, Nagpur, order No. A711 to 722/WZB/2004/C-II dated 27-8-2004. In paragraph 3(e) of that order, the Tribunal has held that cenvat provisions cannot be invoked to recover Modvat credit. The bench noted that Cenvat credit, as per definition in Rule 57AB(1), is credit of specified duties paid on any inputs or capital goods received in the factory on or after the firs....

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....not tenable for the reason that, before the larger bench, no argument was advanced as in the case of Sunrise Structurals, that Section 38A will not cover a case of substitution (in the Sunrise case it has been held that Section 38A cannot be invoked when a rule is substituted by a new rule, as in the case of substitution of Modvat Rules by Cenvat Credit Rules). The Sunrise decision has been follow....