{"id":69520,"date":"2010-12-09T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2010-12-08T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mewar-polytex-ltd-vs-union-of-india-ors-on-9-december-2010"},"modified":"2017-10-19T04:25:01","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T22:55:01","slug":"mewar-polytex-ltd-vs-union-of-india-ors-on-9-december-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.legalindia.com\/judgments\/mewar-polytex-ltd-vs-union-of-india-ors-on-9-december-2010","title":{"rendered":"Mewar Polytex Ltd vs Union Of India &amp; Ors on 9 December, 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"docsource_main\">Supreme Court of India<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_title\">Mewar Polytex Ltd vs Union Of India &amp; Ors on 9 December, 2010<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_author\">Author: . M Sharma<\/div>\n<div class=\"doc_bench\">Bench: Mukundakam Sharma, Anil R. Dave<\/div>\n<pre>                                                            REPORTABLE\n\n             IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA\n              CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION\n\n\n              CIVIL APPEAL NO.            OF 2010\n          [Arising out of S.L.P. (C) No. 4038 of 2009]\n\n\nMEWAR POLYTEX LTD.                               .... Appellant\n\n                            Versus\n\nUNION OF INDIA &amp; ORS                            ....Respondents\n\n\n                         JUDGMENT\n<\/pre>\n<p>Dr. MUKUNDAKAM SHARMA, J.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>1. Leave granted.\n<\/p>\n<p>2. The assessee (appellant herein) seeks to challenge the<\/p>\n<p>  judgment of the High Court of Rajasthan at Jodhpur in<\/p>\n<p>  Central Excise Appeal No.9 of 2006. By its judgment and<\/p>\n<p>  order dated 26.8.2008, the High Court dismissed the<\/p>\n<p>  appeal, affirming the order of the Tribunal dated 4.7.2005,<\/p>\n<p>  which had allowed the appeal of the Revenue and set aside<\/p>\n<p>  the order of the Commissioner (Appeals), who in turn had<\/p>\n<p>  set aside the order in original. By the order in original, the<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                              1<\/span><br \/>\n  Assistant Commissioner had disallowed the Modvat credit of<\/p>\n<p>  ` 5,37,799, and confirmed the recovery thereof, and also<\/p>\n<p>  imposed a penalty of ` 50, 000 under Rule 173 Q (1) (bb) of<\/p>\n<p>  the Central Excise Rules, 1944 (for short &#8220;the Rules&#8221;).<\/p>\n<p>3. The necessary facts, in brief are, that the show cause notice<\/p>\n<p>  dated 15.2.1999 was issued to the assessee alleging that it<\/p>\n<p>  had wrongly taken credit to the extent of ` 5,37,799 under<\/p>\n<p>  Rule 57A of the Rules, during August 1998. The notice also<\/p>\n<p>  called upon the assessee to show cause and explain as to<\/p>\n<p>  why the aforesaid credit, wrongly taken by the assessee<\/p>\n<p>  should not be disallowed\/recovered under provisions of<\/p>\n<p>  Rule 57-I, and also why penal action under Rule 173Q<\/p>\n<p>  (1)(bb) should not be taken, and interest should not be<\/p>\n<p>  charged under Section 11 AB.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>4. The assessee is engaged in the manufacture of HDPE\/PP<\/p>\n<p>  fabrics and bags, and was clearing the goods for home<\/p>\n<p>  consumption on payment of central excise duty, as well as<\/p>\n<p>  exporting the goods under bond without payment of duty,<\/p>\n<p>  and was availing Modvat credit on the inputs under Rule<\/p>\n<p>  57A.   The   Revenue    alleged   that   the   assessee   vide<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                              2<\/span><br \/>\n  declarations in Form AR4 dated 4.8.1998, 17.8.1998 and<\/p>\n<p>  22.8.1998 had exported certain quantity of fabrics in its<\/p>\n<p>  own account, and in the said AR4s had declared that the<\/p>\n<p>  assessee had manufactured the fabric as mentioned in AR4,<\/p>\n<p>  and that the benefit of Modvat under Rule 57A has not been<\/p>\n<p>  availed, and also that it had not availed the facilities under<\/p>\n<p>  Rule 12(1)(b) and 13(1)(b) of the Rules, and that export was<\/p>\n<p>  made in discharge of export obligation under &#8220;advance<\/p>\n<p>  licence&#8221; file.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>5. It was alleged by the Revenue that the same was a false<\/p>\n<p>  declaration, as the assessee has been availing Modvat credit<\/p>\n<p>  on the inputs under Rule 57A. Likewise, in column 4 of the<\/p>\n<p>  Form, the assessee had further declared that the export is<\/p>\n<p>  under duty draw back, while on examination of Central<\/p>\n<p>  excise records and R.T.12 returns of the assessee, it was<\/p>\n<p>  found that the assessee had taken Modvat credit on the<\/p>\n<p>  inputs used in the manufacture of exported goods, and they<\/p>\n<p>  had not received any duty free consignment of PP Granules<\/p>\n<p>  (Inputs) from anyone for exporting the goods on its behalf<\/p>\n<p>  till the date of above-said exports, and that they had also<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                              3<\/span><br \/>\n  not reversed any credit taken on the inputs used in the<\/p>\n<p>  goods exported vide above referred AR4s. Thus, the<\/p>\n<p>  assessee, it was alleged, had wrongly taken credit of<\/p>\n<p>  Modvat, to the tune of ` 5,37,799, which was not<\/p>\n<p>  admissible.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>6. The Assessing Officer confirmed the demand, which was set<\/p>\n<p>  aside in appeal, and was reconfirmed in further stages of<\/p>\n<p>  appeal, as delineated above.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>7. The High Court dismissed the appeal, holding that the<\/p>\n<p>  assessee had resorted to subterfuge and impermissible<\/p>\n<p>  technicalities in attaining its desired end to claim the<\/p>\n<p>  Modvat credit. While the High Court admitted that the<\/p>\n<p>  assessee had not indeed claimed the Modvat credit on the<\/p>\n<p>  inputs at the date when Form AR4s were submitted and the<\/p>\n<p>  goods were exported, it was held by the Hon&#8217;ble Court that<\/p>\n<p>  the said line of argument could not make a case in favour of<\/p>\n<p>  the assessee. The High Court arrived at this conclusion on a<\/p>\n<p>  reading of the provisions enshrined in Rule 57A, Sub-rules<\/p>\n<p>  (1) and (2), and on interpreting the declarations made under<\/p>\n<p>  Form AR4 in context of the case. The High Court held:<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                             4<\/span><br \/>\n     &#8220;A reading of the [Rule 57A] does make it clear, that<br \/>\n     the Modvat credit is to be utilised towards payment<br \/>\n     of duty of excise, leviable on final products.<br \/>\n     Obviously therefore, the sine qua non for entitlement<br \/>\n     of Modvat credit is, that the final product should<br \/>\n     have suffered the incident of excise duty, and it is<br \/>\n     from out of that excise duty, that the credit of Modvat<br \/>\n     is availed by the assessee. In the present case,<br \/>\n     admittedly, the finished products have not suffered<br \/>\n     any excise duty, may be on account of resorting to<br \/>\n     any contrivance, or subterfuge, but the hard fact<br \/>\n     remains, that the finished goods have not suffered<br \/>\n     any excise duty, and therefore, per force the<br \/>\n     language of Rule 57-A, the assessee was not entitled<br \/>\n     to claim the credit of Modvat.\n<\/p>\n<p>     [&#8230;] the declaration was required to be considered in<br \/>\n     the right perspective, in as much as, the benefit of<br \/>\n     Modvat credit should not have been availed, not only<br \/>\n     at the precise point of time when the declaration is<br \/>\n     given, but the benefit should not have been availed<br \/>\n     with respect to the inputs used in manufacture of the<br \/>\n     finished products, which was sought to be exported<br \/>\n     under AR4. Obviously, not only at the cut off time of<br \/>\n     giving declaration AR4, but also at any time in<br \/>\n     future.&#8221;\n<\/p>\n<p>\nBased on this line of reasoning, the High Court deemed it fit to<\/p>\n<p>dismiss the appeal preferred by the assessee. Aggrieved by the<\/p>\n<p>decision of the High Court the appellant-assessee has<\/p>\n<p>approached this Court by way of this Special Leave to Appeal,<\/p>\n<p>on which we have granted leave.\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                               5<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>8. The appeal was listed for hearing and we heard the learned<\/p>\n<p>  counsel appearing for the parties who have ably taken us<\/p>\n<p>  through all the relevant documents on record and also<\/p>\n<p>  placed before us the various decisions which may have a<\/p>\n<p>  bearing on the issues raised in the present appeal.<\/p>\n<p>9. Before we outline the arguments led by the parties to this<\/p>\n<p>  appeal, it would be appropriate to outline some of the facts<\/p>\n<p>  which are beyond dispute. It is well-settled that the<\/p>\n<p>  assessee had not claimed Modvat credit at the time when<\/p>\n<p>  the declarations under Form AR4 were made. However, the<\/p>\n<p>  assessee had in fact, claimed Modvat credit subsequently<\/p>\n<p>  on the inputs used for the very same manufactured goods<\/p>\n<p>  that were exported under AR4. In effect, the assessee had<\/p>\n<p>  used   indigenous   duty-paid   inputs,   and   the   finished<\/p>\n<p>  products were exported without payment of excise duty and<\/p>\n<p>  subsequently, Modvat credit was claimed on such inputs.<\/p>\n<p>  To explain further, we may elaborate briefly on the<\/p>\n<p>  technicalities that made this possible for the assessee.<\/p>\n<p>10. In the normal course, an assessee is entitled to Modvat<\/p>\n<p>  credit on the duty paid in the manufacture of finished<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                              6<\/span><br \/>\n  products and it is from out of that excise duty, the Modvat<\/p>\n<p>  credit is availed of by the assessee. In the case of imported<\/p>\n<p>  raw materials, a countervailing duty (CVD) has to be paid,<\/p>\n<p>  equal to excise duty on such goods. On the other hand, an<\/p>\n<p>  assessee who manufactures finished goods to be exported<\/p>\n<p>  out of imported input material is given an &#8220;Advance<\/p>\n<p>  License&#8221; to import the inputs required for the manufacture<\/p>\n<p>  free from duty.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>11.The case that is then made out by the assessee in the<\/p>\n<p>  present appeal is that the goods exported by the assessee<\/p>\n<p>  were manufactured out of indigenous goods, and hence<\/p>\n<p>  Modvat credit could be claimed. At the same time, however,<\/p>\n<p>  credit for the CVD was availed of by the assessee in respect<\/p>\n<p>  of the goods imported to be used in manufacture. Therefore,<\/p>\n<p>  the crux of the entire case at hand is whether the assessee<\/p>\n<p>  has been at the receiving end of a double benefit, having<\/p>\n<p>  claimed credit twice for the raw materials used.<\/p>\n<p>12.To fortify its stance, the assessee contended before this<\/p>\n<p>  Court that it had taken credit of the duty on indigenous<\/p>\n<p>  inputs only after the replenishment arrived. That is to say,<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                              7<\/span><br \/>\n  the assessee had not claimed Modvat credit at the time the<\/p>\n<p>  declarations under the advance license scheme were filed,<\/p>\n<p>  but only later. It was further contended by the assessee that<\/p>\n<p>  it has not gained any extra benefit except as provided under<\/p>\n<p>  law. While fulfilling the export obligation under the Advance<\/p>\n<p>  Licensing Scheme, the assessee contends that it was<\/p>\n<p>  entitled to avail credit on duty paid on indigenous inputs as<\/p>\n<p>  well as on CVD in lieu of excise duty paid on imported,<\/p>\n<p>  replenished material. On this count, it is the submission of<\/p>\n<p>  the assessee that it has only availed Modvat credit on<\/p>\n<p>  indigenous inputs and availed drawback on the export<\/p>\n<p>  consignment as no credit was availed on CVD paid for the<\/p>\n<p>  imported material. Therefore, any action that could have<\/p>\n<p>  been taken against the assessee should have been made<\/p>\n<p>  under the Customs and Central Excise Duties Drawback<\/p>\n<p>  Rule, 1971 which was not done in the present case.<\/p>\n<p>13.For its part, the Revenue has contended that the assessee<\/p>\n<p>  has   resorted   to   technicalities   in   order   to   avail   the<\/p>\n<p>  aforementioned double benefit. The essence of the argument<\/p>\n<p>  led by the Revenue is that the Modvat credit availed relates<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                                8<\/span><br \/>\n  to the same inputs which were used in the manufacture of<\/p>\n<p>  exported goods under AR4. Since the assessee had exported<\/p>\n<p>  the goods under AR4, claiming that no excise duty was<\/p>\n<p>  payable on the exported goods, it was contended by the<\/p>\n<p>  Revenue that no Modvat credit could be claimed in line with<\/p>\n<p>  the provisions of Rule 57A.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>14.In sum and substance, we are faced with a claim of the<\/p>\n<p>  assessee that, in order to meet the exigency of the export<\/p>\n<p>  order,   the   assessee   used    indigenous   inputs   for   the<\/p>\n<p>  manufacture of the export goods. Subsequently, when the<\/p>\n<p>  `replenishment&#8217; arrived in the form of imported goods, the<\/p>\n<p>  assessee availed the drawback duty for the same. However,<\/p>\n<p>  the question to note is whether there were two separate<\/p>\n<p>  duties that arose, for the assessee to claim credit on both,<\/p>\n<p>  or if the entire process is to be considered as a single cycle,<\/p>\n<p>  which culminated in the export of goods under the Advance<\/p>\n<p>  Licensing Scheme?\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>15.The statutory position regarding the specified benefits is<\/p>\n<p>  postulated in Rule 57A of the Rules.\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                                9<\/span><br \/>\n     &#8220;Rule 57A. Applicability.-(1) The provisions of this<br \/>\n     section shall apply to such finished excisable goods<br \/>\n     (hereafter, in this section, referred to as the final<br \/>\n     products) as the Central Government may, by<br \/>\n     notification in the Official Gazette, specify in this<br \/>\n     behalf for the purpose of allowing credit of any duty<br \/>\n     of excise or the additional duty under Section 3 of the<br \/>\n     Customs Tariff Act, 1975 (51 of 1975), as may be<br \/>\n     specified in the said notification hereafter, in this<br \/>\n     section, referred to as the specified duty) paid on the<br \/>\n     goods used the manufacture of the said final<br \/>\n     products (hereafter, in this section, referred to as the<br \/>\n     inputs)<\/p>\n<p>     2) The credit of specified duty allowed under sub-rule<br \/>\n     (1) shall be utilised towards payment of duty of<br \/>\n     excise leviable the final products, whether under the<br \/>\n     Act or under any other Act, as may be specified in<br \/>\n     the notification issued under sub-rule (1) and subject<br \/>\n     to the provisions this section and the conditions and<br \/>\n     restrictions, if any, specified in the said notification.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A literal reading of the aforestated provision makes it amply<\/p>\n<p>clear that an entitlement to Modvat credit will arise only if<\/p>\n<p>excise duty is incident upon the final product. The final<\/p>\n<p>product in this instance refers to the finished goods (PP<\/p>\n<p>fabrics) that were exported under the Advance Licensing<\/p>\n<p>Scheme without any payment of duty. Therefore, the attempt<\/p>\n<p>of the assessee to justify its availing of Modvat credit is<\/p>\n<p>seriously undermined by the provisions in Rule 57A.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                                10<\/span>\n<\/p>\n<p>16. Subsequently, it is to be seen whether the claiming of<\/p>\n<p>  Modvat credit after filing the declarations in Form AR4<\/p>\n<p>  would entitle the assessee to Modvat credit on the<\/p>\n<p>  indigenous inputs. The declarations filed under AR4s<\/p>\n<p>  entitled the assessee to import inputs on payment of the<\/p>\n<p>  CVD, which subsequently was permitted to be drawn back.<\/p>\n<p>  Therefore,   the    assessee     had    utilized     the    specified<\/p>\n<p>  mechanism to avail of a benefit on the imported inputs,<\/p>\n<p>  while availing of Modvat credit on the indigenous raw<\/p>\n<p>  material used in the manufacture of the same, exported<\/p>\n<p>  goods. In effect, the assessee has not only availed of Modvat<\/p>\n<p>  credit on the indigenous input, but also drew back<\/p>\n<p>  countervailing duty paid on imported inputs that were mere<\/p>\n<p>  stock replenishments, which amounts to a double benefit.<\/p>\n<p>  That the Modvat credit was technically claimed only<\/p>\n<p>  subsequent to the filing of AR4 declarations, although the<\/p>\n<p>  indigenous goods were used in the manufacturing process<\/p>\n<p>  apriori does not also reflect well on the intention of the<\/p>\n<p>  assessee.    The   assessee    has     merely    resorted    to   the<\/p>\n<p>  technicality of claiming Modvat credit subsequent to the<\/p>\n<p>  AR4   declarations,    thereby      entitling   it   to    drawback.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                                 11<\/span><br \/>\n  Subsequently, the Modvat credit has been availed on the<\/p>\n<p>  very same indigenous goods, which shows that the claim of<\/p>\n<p>  the assessee to be legitimately entitled to two separate<\/p>\n<p>  duties is but a fagade.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>17.There can be no question of separate duties arising in this<\/p>\n<p>  case since the issue concerns the manufacture and export<\/p>\n<p>  of one and the same goods. The imported inputs were<\/p>\n<p>  primarily stock replenishments that were used in the<\/p>\n<p>  execution of other orders, and allowing the assessee to<\/p>\n<p>  claim Modvat credit on the indigenous input would<\/p>\n<p>  tantamount to giving a benefit twice for the same process<\/p>\n<p>  that began with the manufacture and culminated in the<\/p>\n<p>  export of the specified goods. The assessee cannot be held<\/p>\n<p>  to be not entitled to claiming Modvat credit on finished<\/p>\n<p>  goods where duty is not incident. Any attempt to avail it<\/p>\n<p>  subsequently, casts serious aspersions on the bonafide<\/p>\n<p>  intention of the assessee. The argument of the assessee that<\/p>\n<p>  action had to be taken under the Duties Drawback Rules,<\/p>\n<p>  1971 and not through reversal of credit does not bear merit.<\/p>\n<p>  The reversal of credit is meant to deny the assessee of a<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                             12<\/span><br \/>\n  benefit that they would have otherwise enjoyed without<\/p>\n<p>  justification. The drawback equivalent to CVD is legitimately<\/p>\n<p>  permissible vide the process of AR4 declarations and thus,<\/p>\n<p>  it is the benefit that is enjoyed without justifiable basis that<\/p>\n<p>  has to be reversed.\n<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>18.In light of the aforesaid facts and circumstances, we find<\/p>\n<p>  that the contentions of the assessee are without merit. We<\/p>\n<p>  dismiss the appeal filed by the assessee, but leave the<\/p>\n<p>  parties to bear their own costs.\n<\/p>\n<p>                                     &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;..J.<br \/>\n                                     [Dr. Mukundakam Sharma]<\/p>\n<p>                                     &#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;J.<br \/>\n                                     [Anil R. Dave]<br \/>\nNew Delhi<br \/>\nDecember 9, 2010.\n<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"hidden_text\">                               13<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Supreme Court of India Mewar Polytex Ltd vs Union Of India &amp; Ors on 9 December, 2010 Author: . M Sharma Bench: Mukundakam Sharma, Anil R. Dave REPORTABLE IN THE SUPREME COURT OF INDIA CIVIL APPELLATE JURISDICTION CIVIL APPEAL NO. OF 2010 [Arising out of S.L.P. 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