2008 (10) TMI 478

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....vocate, for the Appellant. Shri S.R. Prasad, SDR, for the Respondent. [Order per : P.G. Chacko, Member (J)]. - After examining the records and hearing both sides, we come across twin demands of duty on the appellants, over Rs.11.8 crores towards Customs duty and over Rs. 28 lakhs towards Central Excise duty, former consequent upon denial of the benefit of the relevant exemption Notificati....

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.....II(CSTB) dated 14-6-2006. Thus the Commissioner was required to take up the case for de novo adjudication after certain feedback from the Development Commissioner. This was because an application filed by the party was pending before the Development Commissioner. The request before the Development Commissioner was to revise the parameters so as to enable the applicant to establish that they had a....

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....available. We have heard the ld. SDR also. 2. The ld. Counsel has also cited a line of decisions in his bid to establish that the impugned proceedings are premature. We feel that, at this stage, we need not examine this aspect. 3. However, after noting that even the first order of the Commissioner took a long time since issue of the show cause notice and that his second order was p....