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2023 (10) TMI 1111 - HC - Central ExciseCENVAT Credit - machineries used in the co-generation/captive power plant - electricity - exempted product applying the terms of rule 6(4) of the CENVAT Credit Rules 2004 or not - Revenue had observed that the co-generation power plant is a turn-key project like power plants which are not excisable goods. HELD THAT - The show cause notices which are the subject matter of these writ petitions have been issued between the period 2009 to 2015 on the ground that the machineries/components which are used in the cogeneration plant is being used for generating electricity which is an exempted commodity and therefore the petitioners are not entitled to CENVAT Credit. This conclusion has been arrived at by applying the provisions of Rule 6(4) of the CENVAT Credit Rules 2004 which states that CENVAT Credit cannot be allowed on capital goods which are used exclusively in the manufacture of exempted goods other than the final products which are exempted from whole of duty of Excise duty leviable. Therefore it is clearly seen that the respondents whose earlier show cause notices have reached finality are attempting to raise a new issue which was not pleaded earlier. The issue of producing a User Test Certificate not having been demanded in the impugned Show Cause Notices and the order dated 28.06.2023 having been passed on the joint submissions of the counsel where once again there was no reference to the User Test Certificate the Review petitions have to be allowed and since the question of CENVAT Credit having reached finality and the impugned Show Cause Notices are issued on a new ground with reference to the subsequent periods of the writ petitions have to be allowed - the writ petitions/review petitions are allowed and the show cause notices subject matter of the writ petitions are quashed. The writ petitions are allowed.
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