Supreme Court of India

Ayurveda Pharmacy & Anr. v. State of Tamil Nadu

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Reported as [1989] 2 S.C.R. 37
Bench R.S. Pathak and Ranganath Misra JJ.
Decided 15 March 1989
Status Distinguished

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What the Court ordered

In the result, the appeals must be allowed and the appellants held entitled to a refund of the excess paid as sales tax on account of the turnover being treated under Item 135 rather than under Item.

Judgment, page 6

From the headnote

Tamil Nadu General Sales Tax Act, 1959-Validity of Notifica- tion dated 4.3.1974 and Tamil Nadu Act No. 23 of 1974 imposing a higher levy on two Ayurvedic medicinal preparations-Arishtams and Asavas-While all other medicinal preparations under different systems of medicines enjoyed a /myer levy. c i Arishtams and Asavas are Ayurvedic preparations which were originally subject to a uniform levy applicable to all medicinal prepara- tions belonging to the different systems of medicine under the Tamil Nadu General Sales Tax Act, 1959. Firstly by a notification dated 4.3.1974, and later, by the

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