Leather Export Fraud Case: Delay in Sample Examination Raises Questions on Duty Drawback Claim Validity.

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....Rejection of duty drawback - Evasion of payment of export duty and to avail duty drawback - fraudulent export of Semi-finished Leather - Even if it is to be assumed that samples were drawn on 14.10.2016, the Revenue has not brought out on record as to how and where the samples were preserved since more than three weeks after drawing the samples have they sent the samples to the CLRI for examination/report, since, as contended by the Learned Advocate for the appellants, leather is such a goods on which even the weather will have an impact; hence, preservation of the same is very much material. - AT....