Appellant's CENVAT credit valid; department fails to prove non-receipt of goods or alternative raw material use.

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....CENVAT Credit - duty paying documents - The Appellant correctly availed the cenvat credit. Further, the department nowhere raised any dispute on the said records. Thus the contention of the department that appellant have availed cenvat credit without receipt of goods (raw material) is not tenable. Further, as the Appellant have discharged the Central Excise duty on the final product manufactured out of the alleged raw material, if the department is of the opinion that the alleged goods was not received by the appellant then it is the onus on the department to prove that any other alternative raw material was used in the final products, department has failed to do so. - AT....