CENVAT credit at unregistered premises remains available, while construction-related works contract credit faces normal-period recovery and interest.

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....CENVAT credit on input services received at premises omitted from a centralised registration cannot be denied solely because those premises are unregistered. In contrast, works contract services used to construct or set up BPO branches fall within the exclusion for construction of buildings or civil structures, making related credit inadmissible. Where disputed credit was disclosed in ST-3 returns and refund claims, audit detection alone does not establish suppression or other conditions for extended limitation; recovery is confined to the normal period and requires recomputation. Interest follows on recoverable inadmissible credit, but penalties based on suppression or failure to include premises are unsustainable without the requisite contravention or intent to evade.....