Safa Mill Stores vs. The Assistant State Tax Officer, Karukutty, The State Tax Officer, Karukutty And The Deputy Commissioner (Appeals) State Goods And Service Taxes, Tax Complex, Kochi
(Kerala High Court, Kerala)

Case Law
Petitioner / Applicant
Safa Mill Stores
Respondent
The Assistant State Tax Officer, Karukutty, The State Tax Officer, Karukutty And The Deputy Commissioner (Appeals) State Goods And Service Taxes, Tax Complex, Kochi
Court
Kerala High Court
State
Kerala
Date
Sep 6, 2018
Order No.
WP (C). No. 29390 of 2018
TR Citation
2018 (9) TR 2877
Related HSN Chapter/s
N/A
Related HSN Code
N/A

ORDER

The petitioner, a partnership firm, transported certain goods ostensibly from Bombay to Perumbavoor. But when the petitioner tried to unload the goods at Malamury, Perumbavoor, the authorities checked the documents carried along with the goods and found that they did not correctly reflect the destination point. Suspecting tax evasion, the authorities detained the goods and demanded penalty as well as tax. Aggrieved, the petitioner filed WPC No.10256 of 2018 for the release of goods and for the expeditious completion of adjudication.

2. In terms of the judgment in WPC No.10256/2018, the petitioner furnished bank guarantee for the tax and penalty imposed, and had the goods released.

3. Later, the primary authority completed the adjudication and issued the Ext.P5 order, against which the petitioner intends to file a statutory appeal-within limitation. But he apprehends that the authorities, in the meanwhile, may encash the bank guarantee.

4. The learned Government Pleader, on the other hand, submits that the appellate authority has already been constituted under Section 107(1) of the CGST/SGST Act; the petitioner may file the statutory appeal in time.

Therefore, I restrain the authorities from invoking the bank guarantee under Ext.P5 till the petitioner exhausts the statutory remedy or till the appeal gets barred by limitation.

With these observations, I dispose of this writ petition.

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