Supreme Court of India

M/s Sbec Sugar Limited & Anr. v. Union of India & Ors.

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Reported as [2011] 2 S.C.R. 585
Bench D.K. Jain and H.L. Dattu JJ.
Decided 7 February 2011

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What the Court ordered

We are of the considered opinion that there is no merit in these appeals.

Judgment, page 12

From the headnote

Customs Act, 1962 - ss. 72(1)(b), 68 and 15(1)(b) - Imported goods improperly removed from warehouse - Rate of duty - Held: When the goods are cleared from the warehouse after the expiry of the permitted period or its permitted extension, the goods are deemed to have been improperly removed u/s. 72(1)(b) - Rate of duty has to be computed according to the rate applicable on the date of expiry of the permitted period u/s. 61 - Section 15(1 )(b) whereby rate of duty is computed according to the rate and valuation applicable on the date on which goods are actually removed from the warehouse,

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

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