Supreme Court of India

M/s. Mittal Engineering Works (p) Ltd. v. Collector of Central Excise, Meerut

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Reported as [1996] SUPP. 8 S.C.R. 796
Bench S.P. Bharucha and K. Yenkataswami JJ.
Decided 19 November 1996

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Central Excise and Salt Act, 19./4: Mono Vertical Ciystallisers-He/d, are not 'goods' within the meaning of the Act and, therefore, not eligible to excise duty. Stare decisis- decision can;10t be relied upon in support of a proposition that it did not decide. The appellant--assessee was required to pay excise duty on mono vertical crystallisers patented by it The said crystalliser, which was used in sugar factories to exhaust molasses of sugar was a tall structure, like a tower, with a platform at its summit. The assessee resisted the demand stating that the parts of the crystalliser came

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