Goods Detention Due to Off-Route Travel; No Tax Evasion Intent Found, Section 130 Unjustified, Section 129 Applied.

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....Detention of goods and vehicle - detention was for the reason that the vehicle was apprehended at a place that was not on the normal route between Kanyakumari and Maharashtra - the respondents have not been able to establish an intention to evade tax which is a necessary pre-condition for invoking the provisions of Section 130 of the GST Act. - While it may be true that the invocation of Section 130 of the GST Act in these cases was not justified, the irregularity in the documents that accompanied the transportation surely make it out to be a case that justified a detention of the goods u/s 129 - HC....