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2016 (9) TMI 1233 - AT - Central ExciseSeeking destruction of cigarettes and remission of duty thereupon - Notification issued by Ministry of Health & Welfare requiring adherence of specified pictorial warning on the retail packages as an essential condition of marketing - goods reached their date of expiry as per industrial standard as the Central Excise Authorities did not permit the appellant for slitting of 457 cardboard boxes containing 5482200 cigarettes so as to repack said cigarettes into retail packages having specific warning. Held that:- due to issue of Notification dated 03.5.2009 it became mandatory that at least 40% of the principal display area of the front panel of the pack was required to have specified health warnings. The impugned goods were packed much before the issue of said Notification. Rules 21 of Central Excise Rules, 2002, provide that Commissioner is empowered to remit duty payable on goods which are claimed by a manufacture as unfit for marketing at any time before removal. We find that impugned order rejecting such permission is not tenable in law. We, therefore, allow appellant's application dated 14/4/2011 filed before Commissioner Central Excise, Ghaziabad, for remission of duty of ₹ 54,71,419.74 and allow destruction of 548200 cigarettes referred to earlier and direct the Commissioner Central Excise, Ghaziabad to ensure destruction of said cigarettes by following procedure provided by law for the time being in face for such destruction. - Decided in favour of appellant
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