2008 (7) TMI 268

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....or the Respondent. [Order per: P.G. Chacko, Member (J)]. - One of these appeals is by a company and the other by its Managing Director. In the impugned order, the learned Chief Commissioner confirmed demand of duty of Rs. 6,08,649/- with interest against the company in adjudication of a show-cause notice, wherein the company was alleged to have failed to discharge export obligation under the DE....

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.... constrained to dispose of the finished goods in the domestic market, having failed to obtain alternative purchase orders from abroad. The quantity of copper consumed in the manufacture of such cables was estimated at 9.78 MTs. It was in respect of this quantity of copper that the learned Chief Commissioner denied the benefit of the above notification and confirmed the demand of duty. It is noted ....

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....ntered by the appellants in the matter of discharging export obligation under the DEEC licence in relation to the copper wire imported by them have not been properly appreciated by the learned Chief Commissioner in the context of imposing penalties on them. In their reply to the show-cause notice, they stated the aforesaid circumstances, the veracity of which has not been doubted in the impugned o....