Supreme Court of India

B.P.L. Pharmaceuticals Ltd v. Collector of Central Excise, Vadodara

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Reported as [1995] 3 S.C.R. 1235
Bench P.B. Sawant and K. Venkataswami JJ.
Decided 4 May 1995

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What the Court ordered

In the result the appeals are allowed holding that the product 'Selsun' will fall under tariff Item 3003.

Judgment, page 26

From the headnote

Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985-Tariff Schedule-Sub-headings Nos. 3305.90 and 3003.l'f- /assification of Selenium Sulfide Lotion U.S.P.-Wliether medicine or cosmetic product-Selenium Sulfide the only active ingredient used but constituting only 2.5% of the entire solution-Used for treatment of skin disease 'seborrhoeic dermatities' commonly known as dandruff-Label and literature showed it was for medicinal usi-Classijied as medicine under the Central Excise Tariff Act, 1944-Held, it is classifiable as medicine. The appellant was manufacturer of 'Selenium Sulfide Lotion U.S.P.' which contain

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