GST job-work records and revenue neutrality: Section 74 invocation upheld, while factual verification of neutrality was remitted.

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....Under the GST job-work scheme, the principal must maintain the accounts and records required by Section 143 and Rule 45, and failure to show return of goods within the prescribed period attracts the statutory deeming consequence. On that basis, invocation of Section 74 and the extended limitation was upheld, and the technical challenge to the notices and orders for want of separate recitals of every ingredient was rejected. The assessee's plea of revenue neutrality was not decided in writ proceedings because it depended on disputed facts about tax already suffered on the inputs; that issue was remitted for fresh reply and merits-based reconsideration.....