{"id":204808,"date":"2007-03-20T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2007-03-19T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/apex-color-lab-vs-cce-on-20-march-2007"},"modified":"2017-11-27T07:37:51","modified_gmt":"2017-11-27T02:07:51","slug":"apex-color-lab-vs-cce-on-20-march-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/apex-color-lab-vs-cce-on-20-march-2007","title":{"rendered":"Apex Color Lab vs Cce on 20 March, 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Customs, Excise and Gold Tribunal &#8211; Delhi<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Apex Color Lab vs Cce on 20 March, 2007<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_citations\">Equivalent citations: 2007 10 STJ 27 CESTAT New Delhi<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: P Das<\/div>\n<\/p>\n<pre><\/pre>\n<p>ORDER<\/p>\n<p>P.K. Das, Member (J)<\/p>\n<p>1. The issue involved in this application is a narrow compass and therefore after granting stay the hearing of the appeal is taken up for disposal. Heard both sides and perused the records.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. The learned Advocate on behalf of the applicant submits that the Commissioner passed the order without giving any opportunity of personal hearing.\n<\/p>\n<p>3. After hearing both the sides and on perusal of the records, it is revealed from the impugned order that a show cause notice dated 21.11.2006 was issued by the Commissioner. It appears from the impugned order that the appellant vide reply dated 23.11.2006 received on 24.11.2006 requested to finalise the proceedings under amnesty scheme. The learned Advocate submits that they have not given any opportunity of personal hearing at any point of time. There is no reference in the impugned order that the appellant was given any opportunity of personal hearing. As such, the impugned order is set-aside and matter is remanded back to the Commissioner (Appeals) to decide the case after giving proper opportunity of personal hearing to the appellant. The appeal is allowed by way of remand.\n<\/p>\n<p>(Order pronounced and dictated in the open Court)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Customs, Excise and Gold Tribunal &#8211; Delhi Apex Color Lab vs Cce on 20 March, 2007 Equivalent citations: 2007 10 STJ 27 CESTAT New Delhi Bench: P Das ORDER P.K. Das, Member (J) 1. The issue involved in this application is a narrow compass and therefore after granting stay the hearing of the appeal is [&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-204808","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>Apex Color Lab vs Cce on 20 March, 2007 - 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\/apex-color-lab-vs-cce-on-20-march-2007\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Apex Color Lab vs Cce on 20 March, 2007 - Free Judgements of Supreme Court &amp; 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