2012 (9) TMI 568

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..... rned Counsel vehemently contest the appeal on the ground that when there was no clandestine removal proved penalty should not be imposed at all under Rule 25 of Central Excise Rules, 2002. Neither duty is collectible nor any amount of penalty.   2. Above proposition is not acceptable to Revenue relying on first appellate order.   3. Heard both sides and also perused the first appellate .....

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..... charged by investigation. Inventory was witnessed by the appellant himself for which taking shelter of any circumstantial evidence was unwarranted. Burden of proof was discharged by Revenue bringing home the appellant to the shortage found. Revenue did not make the appellant defenceless.   6. There were three stages of course of natural justice followed. The first course ended at the investi .....

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