2001 (9) TMI 1151

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..... d Advocate and Shri V.K. Chaturvedi, learned S.D.R. for the Revenue, we find that the demand of duty has been confirmed against the appellants and penalty imposed upon them on the charges of clandestine removal, which are based upon comparison of figures of manufacture and clearance, as reflected in their Annual Financial Accounts and the entries made in their statutory records. The appellant firm .....

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..... year. The method of compilation adopted by the statistical department is completely different from that required for the maintenance of Central Excise records. The 'order department' of RSP under General Manager. Materials Management keeps record and despatch advice of materials removed from the factory. Order department compiles the despatch on the basis of the advanced DA copy by taking .....

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..... re and removal cannot be sustained against the appellants. It is well settled law that onus to prove clandestine manufacture and clearance is upon the Revenue and required to be proved by production of sufficient evidence. There is nothing on record to show that the appellants have been indulging into excess clearances without payment of duty. The appellants have satisfactorily explained the diffe .....

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