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"The SCN does not indicate that they investigated into
other raw materials; consumption of electricity;
deployment of labour; payments for receipt of unaccounted
raw material, if any; transportation; buyers of
clandestinely removed goods and payment thereof etcetera.
They appeared to be in a haste to erect a tall tower on
sinking sand without laying any foundation; once the
accounting mistakes in the catechu account are reconciled,
the sand sinks and the tower collapses. In the facts of the
case before us, there is neither any unexplained
discrepancy in the receipt of catechu except the 2000 Kgs.,
which the applicant has already admitted, nor DGCEI has
been able to produce any worthwhile evidence to support
their allegation of illicit manufacture and removal of goods
in the absence of which their allegations cannot be
sustained."