Non-payment and late filing of service tax returns don't trigger Section 78 without fraud, misstatement, or fact suppression.

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....Mere non-payment of service tax and mere non-filing of returns does not attract the provisions of Section 78 as it contains the words fraud, wilful mis-statement and suppression of facts - AT....