2017 (3) TMI 549

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.... (AR) for Respondent ORDER Per Raju The appellants, M/s Auto Valves and Engine Components Ltd., were engaged in the activity of converting steel raw material into semi-finished valves. According to the Director of the company, the following activities are carried out in their premises: - "We are using mainly valve steel such as EN 52, EN24 and NI60 stellite rods. EN 52 is basical....

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....and then transferred to the extrusion press to extrude and then make it to the required shape and then immediately tamper in oil to harden it. After hardening it is transferred into a tampering furnace to tamper it to the requited hardness. After tampering the valve is cut to required length and then it is transferred to the straightening machine where the valve is straightened. The valve stem is ....

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.... further processing." Thereafter the material is sent to the principal manufacturer of valve in Kanpur where the finished valves are produced. The appellants were not registered under Central Excise and hence, a show-cause notice demanding duty on this activity was issued. The same was confirmed and apart from the confirmation of demand and interest, equivalent penalty under Section 11AC was al....

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....t they are entitled to benefit of Notification No. 214/96 and there is no requirement of any procedural formality under the said notification. It has also been argued that they were entitled to Notification No. 84/95-CE also. 4. Learned AR relied on the impugned order. 5. We have gone through the rival submissions. We find that the principal requirement for availing Notification No. 214/86 o....