India, Feb. 20 -- The Customs Department told the Bombay High Court that Skoda Volkswagen will have to fall in line and not play the "victim". The department was justifying the $1.4-billion tax demand notice it sent to the company for allegedly evading tax by wrongly classifying imports.

Additional Solicitor General N Venkatraman told the court that the rule of law is the same for everyone and that the department was not at fault for issuing the tax demand notice to the company, news agency PTI reported.

"You have to follow the law. You have to fall in line.Similar importers are already paying 30%. It is not our fault for issuing this show cause notice," he said in his arguments before a divisional bench of Justices BP Colabawalla and F...