TMI Blog2020 (11) TMI 422X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... n question, was not necessarily from Coimbatore as was declared in the invoice and the e-way bill that were produced by the petitioners, the said material does not point to any intention to evade tax, more so when, there is nothing to doubt the genuineness of the declaration of the petitioners that the goods were consigned to Gujarat from Coimbatore, or any material to suggest that the ultimate destination of the goods was any place other than Gujarat. It has to be noticed that the 1st petitioner had admitted his liability to IGST by declaring the same in the invoice, and if the goods, even assuming that they were loaded from Palakkad, were destined to Gujarat, it is the IGST that had to be paid by the 1st petitioner/consigner of the goods. ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... the documents that accompanied the transportation of the goods were found to be defective. The consignment in question was accompanied by a tax invoice and an e-way bill that showed payment of IGST as also that the transportation of the goods was from Coimbatore to Gujarat. The respondents, however, obtained evidence that suggested that the loading of the consignment was effected in Palakkad, within the State of Kerala, and not in Coimbatore. While the detention of the goods may have been justified on the said ground, and based on the material available with the respondents to suggest that the transportation shown in the e-way bill was not the actual transportation of the goods in question, the respondents went further, and invoked the prov ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... more so when, there is nothing to doubt the genuineness of the declaration of the petitioners that the goods were consigned to Gujarat from Coimbatore, or any material to suggest that the ultimate destination of the goods was any place other than Gujarat. It has to be noticed that the 1st petitioner had admitted his liability to IGST by declaring the same in the invoice, and if the goods, even assuming that they were loaded from Palakkad, were destined to Gujarat, it is the IGST that had to be paid by the 1st petitioner/consigner of the goods. To that extent, therefore, it cannot be said that there was any intention to evade payment of tax because the tax liability, in either event, would be the same. That apart, there is no specific averme ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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