TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2012 (11) TMI 959
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....Respondent. ORDER Akil Kureshi, J. - Department has preferred this appeal calling in question the judgment of the Customs, Excise and Service Tax Appellate Tribunal ('the Tribunal' for short) dated 23.2.11. Following questions have been raised for our consideration : "1. Whether in facts and circumstances of the case, the Tribunal was justified in holding that the demand was barred by lim....
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....ied to the show cause notice and contended that there was no manufacturing process involved. It was the case of the respondent that the marketability of the fabrics is fulfilled only when it was bleached and some process is done. Only thereafter such gauze fabric is marketable. The process undertaken by the assessee does not amount to manufacturing process. During personal hearing, in addition to ....
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....Commissioner also upheld such view of the assessee, larger period of limitation could not be applied. On such basis while upholding the demand in part, for the period beyond one year from the date of show cause notice, the demand was quashed. It is this judgment of the Tribunal, which the Department has challenged to the extent the same is against the Department. Counsel Shri Parikh for the appel....
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....ay be that such issue of allegation was not in so many words denied by the respondent. However, in the show cause notice and during personal hearing before the Commissioner, the central defence of the respondent was that the respondent undertook no manufacturing activity to bring into existence gauze fabrics. Further that before further process, such fabric could not be marketed. On such twin grou....