{"id":172891,"date":"2004-02-23T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-02-22T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/commissioner-of-central-excise-vs-on-dot-couriers-and-cargo-limited-on-23-february-2004"},"modified":"2017-02-28T04:08:16","modified_gmt":"2017-02-27T22:38:16","slug":"commissioner-of-central-excise-vs-on-dot-couriers-and-cargo-limited-on-23-february-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/commissioner-of-central-excise-vs-on-dot-couriers-and-cargo-limited-on-23-february-2004","title":{"rendered":"Commissioner Of Central Excise vs On Dot Couriers And Cargo Limited on 23 February, 2004"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Customs, Excise and Gold Tribunal &#8211; Delhi<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Commissioner Of Central Excise vs On Dot Couriers And Cargo Limited on 23 February, 2004<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 2006 S T R 90<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: S Kang<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>ORDER<\/p>\n<p>S.S. Kang, Member (J)<\/p>\n<p>1. When the matter was called none appeared on behalf of the appellants, in spite of notice. Heard the learned JDR.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. The Revenue filed these appeals against the Order-in-Appeal whereby the Commissioner (Appeals) reduced the penalty imposed under Section 76 of the Finance Act, 1994. The contention of the Revenue is that the Commissioner has no power to reduce the penalty prescribed under Section 76 of the Finance Act, 1994.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. I find that Section 80 of the Finance Act, 1994 provides notwithstanding anything contained in the provisions of Section 76, Section 77, Section 78 or Section 79, no penalty shall be imposable on the assessee for any failure referred to in the said provisions if the assessee proves that there was reasonable cause for the said failure. In view of these, the Commissioner (Appeals) finds that there was only delay in respect of two months, therefore, he reduced the penalty.\n<\/p>\n<p>4. Further, the Tribunal in the case of Escorts JCB limited v. CCE, New Delhi &#8211;  held that in case the maximum penalty provided under the provisions of law, the discretion is with the authority to impose lesser amount of penalty. Therefore, I find no infirmity in the impugned order. The appeals are dismissed.\n<\/p>\n<p>(Pronounced in Court)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Customs, Excise and Gold Tribunal &#8211; Delhi Commissioner Of Central Excise vs On Dot Couriers And Cargo Limited on 23 February, 2004 Equivalent citations: 2006 S T R 90 Bench: S Kang ORDER S.S. Kang, Member (J) 1. When the matter was called none appeared on behalf of the appellants, in spite of notice. Heard [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-172891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-customs-excise-and-gold-tribunal-delhi","category-tribunal"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.3 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Commissioner Of Central Excise vs On Dot Couriers And Cargo Limited on 23 February, 2004 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; High Court | Legal India<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/commissioner-of-central-excise-vs-on-dot-couriers-and-cargo-limited-on-23-february-2004\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Commissioner Of Central Excise vs On Dot Couriers And Cargo Limited on 23 February, 2004 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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