Supreme Court of India

State of Uttar Pradesh and Anr. v. M/s. Laxmi Paper Mart and Ors.

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Reported as [1997] 1 S.C.R. 914
Bench B.P. Jeevan Reddy and K.S. Paripoornan JJ.
Decided 4 February 1997

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Constitution of India, 1950: Articles 301 and 304(a). Sales Tax-Inter-State sale-Purchase of raw material-Within or without the State-Discrimination between-Exemption of tax on exercise books made from paper purchased within the State while subjecting other exercise books to tax-Validity of Held: Levy of such tax on exercise books made outside the State but brought and sold in the State ultra vires Art. 304(a), although the rate of tax on paper was same-Price stntcture of the imported goodS vis- a-vis locally manufactured goods or the economics of the importer, need not be gone i11to-However,

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