TMI Blog2000 (6) TMI 233X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... reedharan, President]. Show cause notice was issued to M/s Ram Ply Board Industries (P) Ltd. and the appellant herein, inter alia, alleging that the transaction between M/s Ram Ply Board Industries and the appellant herein was not a genuine transaction falling under Section 4(1) (a) because the appellant was only a commission agent. This allegation in the show cause notice was contested by t ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... -5-1999 by reducing the penalty to Rs. 1,50,000/-. For a proper understanding of the order, we read last two paragraphs :- Submissions made by the appellants that they had not worked as a commission agent are convincing. But howsoever convincing be these submissions in view of having made an application under KVSS scheme by the main accused M/s Ram Ply Board Industries (P) Ltd., Kotdwar in the ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... on under KVSS scheme will be liable to payment of 50% of duty adjudged, with amount of penalty imposed totally let off, a person booked under the provisions of Rule 209A of the Central Excise Rules 1944 only, deserves a softer hand. Taking into consideration all the circumstances I feel a penalty of Rs. One lac and Fifty Thousand only will be sufficient to meet the ends of justice in this case. ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... understand as to how the Commissioner sustained the penalty under Rule 209A of the Central Excise Rules, 1944, specially when the Commissioner did not render any finding on the third issue raised for consideration. Without a finding on the third issue which was posed for decision, the Commissioner could not have sustained a penalty invoking the provision contained in Rule 209A. On this ground, the ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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