Goods Seizure Overturned Due to Minor Invoice Error; Clause 5 Allows Exception for Inadvertent Mistakes, No Penalty Applied.

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....Seizure of goods alongwith the vehicle - The imposition of the penal consequences due to an exception, which has been caused on account of the inadvertent human error by not referring the invoice number as “SAI/V-235” and by referring it to “235” only. Since even the invoice number “235” has been consistently maintained in all the documentations, which were made by the petitioner, since it never cleverly intended to evade the tax, or revenue of the State, the exception would fall to be within Clause 5 of the Circular - the imposition made on account of the said human error, which has crept in in invoice number is pardonable under Clause 5 of the Circular - HC....