Show-cause notice limits penalty liability: imposing a handler's proposed penalty on the petitioner required fresh adjudication.

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....Penalty under section 122(1A) of the CGST Act must be imposed consistently with the person identified in the show-cause notice. Specified penalties were proposed against the petitioner, while the separate section 122(1A) penalty was proposed against its handler/operator; nevertheless, both penalties were imposed on the petitioner. As this mixing of proposed penalties was not specifically controverted, the penalty order was quashed and remanded for fresh adjudication after hearing the petitioner, with other issues left open.....