TaxTMI 
TaxTMI 
2018 (10) TMI 535
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....a, who were found by the officers to have manufactured these coils bearing the brand name of the appellant wrongly availing benefit of exemption notification No. 8/2003-CE, dated 01.03.2003. This exemption notification is not applicable to products manufactured with the brand name of another company. Accordingly, it was felt that M/s Sada Healthcare Products Pvt. Ltd. cleared the goods irregularly availing the benefit of exemption notification. The matter was investigated by the authorities and during investigation the Director of M/s Sada Healthcare Products Pvt. Ltd. informed the appellant that they were liable to pay duty on these products. Thereupon the appellant paid the full excise duty alongwith interest although they were not the ma....
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....se notice was issued proposing a penalty under Rule 26 while the penalty was imposed by the lower authority under Rule 25. They were never given an opportunity to defend themselves against imposition of penalty under Rule 25 of Central Excise Rules, 2002. 3b. The first appellate authority has wrongly not agreed with their arguments and held that indication of Rule 25 instead of Rule 26 in the Order-in-Original was only a typographic error and the intention was to impose penalty under Rule 26 only which the original authority has correctly done. 3c. Rule 26 of Central Excise Rules reads as follows. "26. Penalty for certain offences.- (1)Any person who acquires possession of, or is in any way conce....
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....liable for confiscation. The only allegation in the show cause notice is that Shri Murali Krishna, Director of M/s Sada Healthcare Products Pvt. Ltd. in his statement alleged that the appellant played mischief and made them to clear the goods without payment of duty by creating the impression that duty is not payable on these items. This uncorroborated statement of the Director of M/s Sada Healthcare Products Pvt. Ltd. is not sufficient to impose penalty on them under Rule 26. 5. The first appellate authority had wrongly held that the intention of the lower authority was to impose penalty under Rule 26 because the entire discussion as far as the penalty on the appellant in para 15 is only with reference to Rule 25 and not with reference ....
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....6, because in para 15 of the Order-in-Original, the lower authority has discussed as to why penalty is liable to be imposed under rule 25, both on M/s Sada Healthcare Products Pvt. Ltd. and the appellant herein. We further find that penalty under rule 25 can be imposed on any producer, manufacturer, registered person of a Warehouse or a registered dealer for various contraventions. It is not the allegation in the show cause notice that the appellant is the manufacturer. As far as penalty under rule 26 is concerned, it is imposable on any person who acquires possession of or is in any way concerned in transporting, removing, depositing, keeping, concealing, selling or purchasing or dealing in any other manner with any excisable goods which h....