1995 (3) TMI 100

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..... n this appeal is whether the Department was justified in initiating proceedings for short levy by invoking proviso to Section 11A of the Central Excises Salt Act, 1944 for the years 1978-79, 1979-80, 1980-81 and 1981-82. 2.The appellant manufactured an item falling under Tariff Entry 14E as well as another item under Item 68. The item under item 68 was fully exempt from payment of duty. The va .....

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..... settled by this Court in Wallace Flour Mills Co. Ltd. v. Collector of Central Excise, Bombay, Division III - 1989 (44) E.L.T. 598 (SC) = (1989) 4 SCC 592. Till then conflicting decisions were rendered by different High Courts and Tribunal and it was not settled whether the turnovers of assessable and exempted goods were liable to be clubbed for determining liability. Therefore, two questions arise .....

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..... e relevant date in the circumstances mentioned in the proviso, one of it being suppression of facts. The meaning of the word both in law and even otherwise is well known. In normal understanding it is not different that what is explained in various dictionaries unless of course the context in which it has been used indicates otherwise. A perusal of the proviso indicates that it has been used in co .....

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