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TMI Blog1986 (6) TMI 40X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... as fuel during the period between 1-3-1975 and 29-4-1975. The petitioner would contend that bagasse is not a manufactured product so as to be an excisable good under the Central Excises and Salt Act, 1944 (Central Act 1 of 1944, hereinafter referred to as 'the Act'. The petitioner would also claim exemption under Notification No. 58 of 1975, dated 1-3-1975 as amended by Notification No. 77 of 1975 ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... does not market the bagasse as a commercial product and that no process of manufacture within the meaning of section 2(f) of the Act is involved in the case of bagasse and hence the demand of duty on the concerned quantity of bagasse is incompetent. 3. The main part of section 2(f) reads as follows : "In this Act, unless there is anything repugnant in the subject or context, - (f) 'manufacture ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... f changes, and when there is an essential difference in identity between the original commodity and the commodity, which comes out of the processing, certainly, 'manufacture' is involved. It is not possible to say that bagasse is the same as the sugarcane, after the sugarcane has gone through the process of crushing, forgetting the product of sugar out of it. Out of the crushing process, of the su ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... an intermediate goods or the component part of any goods. This submission also been manufactured by the petitioner is sugar. 'Intermediate good or component part of any good' could only mean a product or a compound which results in the course of manufacture of the final product and goes to make the component for the final product and certainly not an independent by-product as in the case of bagas ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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