Supreme Court of India

M/s. Anand Nishikawa Co. Ltd. v. Commissioner of Central Excise, Meerut

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Reported as [2005] SUPP. 3 S.C.R. 413
Bench S.N. Variava and Tarun Chatterjee JJ.
Decided 23 September 2005

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that the CEGAT was not justified in holding that the extended period of limitation would be available to the Department for initiating the recovery proceedings under section 11 A of the Act on a finding that there was suppression of facts by the appellant.

Judgment, page 16

From the headnote

Excise: Central Excise Act, 1944: c Section 11- (1) proviso (as it stood after 2000 amendment but prior to 12-5-2000)-Limitation-Extended period of limitation-Applicability of­ "Suppression offacts"-Assessee manufactured rubber profiles which product after extrusion was subjected to notching or drilling of a few holes or slilling­ Assessee classified such extruded rubber profiles under Sub-heading 4008.29 which al/racted 'Nil' rate of duty-But the Revenue sought to classify the said product under Sub-heading 4016.19 on the ground that the assessee had not disclosed the process of notching,

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