2003 (8) TMI 59

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....n filed to the present writ petition. 2. The petitioner-company owns a factory, where it used to manufacture tin containers and for that purpose used to purchase tin plates. It is an assessee under the Central Excise Act and had been extended the benefit of Modvat. A raid was conducted at the factory of the petitioner-company by the Excise authorities. In course of raid, various documents of th....

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....e. After calling upon the petitioner-company to give reply to the show cause notice for quite some time, and after appropriately postponing the date of adjudication; ultimately the authority concerned passed an order and adjudged that the petitioner-company is liable to pay roughly about Rs. 25 lakhs to the Revenue. Against that the petitioner-company preferred an appeal before the Tribunal. The T....

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....ners then, approached this Court by filing a writ petition and therein contended that the Tribunal ought to have had reduced the quantum of deposit from the sum of Rs. 10 lakhs for the reasons disclosed by them in their review application and in not doing so the Tribunal acted in a manner unwarranted. The Court accepted such contention and accordingly set aside the order of the dismissal of the ap....