Supreme Court of India

Padmini Products v. Collector of Central Excise, Bangalore

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Reported as [1989] 3 S.C.R. 873
Bench Sabyasachi Mukharji and B.C. Ray JJ.
Decided 18 August 1989

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the Tribunal was right in holding that .agarbaties were not handicrafts.

Judgment, page 9

From the headnote

Central Excises and Salt Act 1944/Central Excise Rules, 1944:. Section lJA Rules 8, 9 and 174--Persons required to take out licence-­ Recoveries of duty not levied not barred-Failure to pay duty or take out licence is not necessarily due to fraud, collusion or wilful mis­ statement. The appellant was a manufacturer of agarbatis, dhoop sticks, dhoop coil and dhoop powder falling under Tariff Item No. 68 of the Central Excise Tariff. It claimed exemption from duty of excise on the ground that these items being handicrafts were fully exempt from such payment under notification No. 55/75. The

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 2 referred to · 17 mentioned

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