M/S. Suncity Metal (P) Ltd vs Cce Jaipur-Ii on 6 August, 2013
The appeal filed against connected matter involving similar issue was dismissed by the Apex Court and that is reported in Rajasthan Processor (India) Ltd. Vs. Collector-1994(70) ELT- A 182 as well as in Rajasthan Spinning & Weaving Ltd. Vs. Collector 1999(112) ELT-A 115(S.C.). Once the laws having been clearly laid down that mere issuance of the credit notes subsequent to the collection of the duty incidents in terms of the invoices issued at the time of the sale of the goods do not amount to discharging the burden which is required to be discharged by the assessee, to come out of the principle of unjust enrichment applicable in such cases, merely because the buyers of the respondent had issued the debit notes and had made reference to such debit notes in their ledger books that itself can not be sufficient to say that the respondent had discharged their burden in that regard. The appellants, therefore, are justified in contending the consequent on the failure on the part of the respondent to establish the duty incident had not been passed over to the customers, the authorities below erred in dropping the proceedings. Being so, the order passed by the authority below is not sustainable and are liable to be set aside with consequential relief. Accordingly, the appeal succeeds. The impugned order along with the order of the Adjudicating Authority is set aside with the consequential relief.