Supreme Court of India

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Bench Cji CJI, K.T. Thomas and M. Srinivasan JJ.
Decided 4 March 1998

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What the Court ordered

We hold that recovery of excise duty for yarn from the appellant for the period between 1.4.1981 and 5.12.1981 is barred by the period of limitation prescribed in section 11-A of the Act.

Judgment, page 8

From the headnote

JUDGMENT: J U M N T Thomas, J. This moot point in this appeal this: Whether the period of six months envisaged in Section 11A of the Central Excise Act, 1944 (for short the Act), for issuing show cause notice, stood extended by further period so as to enable the Revenue to scale over the hurdle of limitation? Respondent (Revenue) advanced two alternative premises in support of the plea that the said period of six months stood extended.…

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