Supreme Court of India

Hindustan Brown Boveri Ltd. Etc. v. State of Gujarat

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Reported as [1981] 3 S.C.R. 435
Bench R. S. Pathak and E. S. Venkataramiah JJ.
Decided 7 April 1981

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What the Court ordered

For the foregoing reasons, we do not find any merit in these appeals.

Judgment, page 14

From the headnote

Gujarat Sales Tax Act, 1969-Sections 16 and 49(2)-Scope of. 435 Exercising power under section 49(2) of the Gujarat Sales Tax Act, 1969, the State Government exempted the entire tax payable on sale of goods (other than prohibited goods) by a registered dealer to an electrical undertaking, certi­ fied for the purposes by the Commissioner; if the electrical undertaking, furnished to the selling dealer a certificate in the requisite form that the goods purchased were required for the generation or distribution of electricity by the undertaking. But according to section 16 or the Act where a

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