2008 (4) TMI 164

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..... Jayashankar, Advocate, for the Respondent. [Order per: P.G. Chacko, Member (J)]. - M/s. Anand Zenner Company Pvt. Ltd. (respondents) are engaged in the manufacture of water meter and parts thereof. They are a joint venture company jointly promoted by M/s. Anand Water Meter Manufacturing Company (F) Ltd., Cochin and M/s. Karl Adolf Zenner Wasser Zahler Fabrick GMBH of the erstwhile West German....

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...., and demanding differential duty from them. This demand was contested by the party. In adjudication of the dispute, the original authority confirmed the demand of duty and imposed on them a penalty. The respondents preferred an appeal to the Commissioner (Appeals) and the latter allowed the same. Hence the present appeal of the Revenue. 2. After examining the grounds of this appeal and hearing....

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....y the assessee (M/s. Dharani Cements Ltd.) after printing on its label these words — "Manufactured by Dharani Cements Ltd. A Subsidiary of Grasim Industries Ltd." was held to attract the bar created under para-2(b) of SSI Notification No. 5/98-C.E. dated 2-6-1998. The said para-2(b) stipulated that the exemption under the Notification shall not be applicable to cement bearing a brandnam....