Supreme Court of India

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Bench S.P. Bharucha and K. Venkataswami JJ.
Decided 20 November 1996

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that to a common man in the trade and in common parlance a carton remains a carton whether it is a plan carton or a printed carton.

Judgment, page 3

From the headnote

JUDGMENT: J U M N T Venkataswami, J. The only question that arises for our consideration in all these Appeals is whether ‘Printed Aluminium Labels’ (hereinafter referred to as "labels") manufactured by the appellant are ‘products of the printing industry" within the meaning of Notification 55/75-CE dated 1.3.1975 (hereinafter called "the Notification") issued under Rule 8(1) of the Central Excise Rules, 1944. It is not in dispute that but for the exemption under the Notification, the labels in question, would fall under Item No. 68 of the First Schedule to the Central Excise and Salt Act…

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