Charges for Undocumented Manufacture and Duty Evasion Dismissed Due to Lack of Evidence and Unsupported Claims.

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....Clandestine Removal - Ingots - the charges levelled against the appellants for clandestine manufacture and removal of final products, without payment of duty are not substantiated with cogent and reliable evidence. It is found that a case of this magnitude needs to be corroborated by establishing other facts such as purchase of raw material, deployment of labour, additional consumption of electricity, manufacture of final products, removal and transportation of the same to customers premises and payments received for the same - in the instant case, no other criteria has been investigated and established. The whole case is sought to be made by surmises and conjectures. - AT....