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2002 (3) TMI 129

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..... elevision (for short CTVs) Audio and Video products out of their own raw materials and they sold their products entirely to M/s. Baron International Ltd. (for short BIL) after affixing with brand name AKAI. Show cause notice dated 16-10-1995 was issued to them demanding duty and imposing penalty on the ground that there was mutuality of interest between the appellants and BIL and the price for the purpose of Section 4 of the Central Excise Act, 1944 should be the price at which M/s. BIL were selling the impugned products; that the Deputy Commissioner under Order-in-Original dated 2-7-1999 vacated the SCN holding that there was no relationship between the appellants and M/s. BIL. The Commissioner reviewed the order on the ground that M/s. BI .....

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..... f interest without any evidence whatsoever; that neither there was any averment in the SCN nor any evidence has been brought on record to show that either BIL has interest in the business of the appellants or the appellant has interest in the business of M/s. BIL; that neither of them is having any share holding in the business of others; that merely because M/s. BIL purchased the entire goods manufactured by the appellants, they cannot be held to be related persons at all; that the price at which goods are sold to the brand owner buyer is the basis and not the price at which such goods are sold in the market by the brand owner buyer. He relied upon the following decisions :- (a) Union of India v. Cibatul Ltd., 1985 (22) E.L.T. 302 .....

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..... ce to establish that the appellants company was a dummy unit of M/s. BIL; that, therefore, the ground of appeal in the Review Order to the effect that M/s. BIL are real manufacturer, arises out of proceedings only. On merit he submitted that there was a mutuality of interest between M/s. BIL and the appellants as certain raw materials such as PCB, and remote control were to be supplied by M/s. BIL who had also the right to post their own quality control officers. Finally he submitted that as that the Commissioner (Appeals) has given specific findings to the effect that the cost towards insurance, testing and inspection charges and factory running expenses and depot maintenance expenses are to be included in the assessable value, such plea w .....

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..... that mutuality of interest in the business of each other must be in the nature of financial or manageable interest and such interest does not exist in the present matter. We also agree with the learned Advocate that these findings of holding non-existence of mutuality of interest between the appellants and M/s. BIL were not challenged in the Review Order filed before the Commissioner (Appeals). Accordingly we are of the opinion that the Review Order was passed by the Commissioner on the basis of charges which was not mentioned in the SCN. As held by the Tribunal in Eastern Aeromatics (P) Ltd., no new point can be taken in review as the review under Section 35E of Central Excise Act, 1944 has to be confined to points arising out of order un .....

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