Supreme Court of India

M/s. Naturalle Health Products (p) Ltd. v. Collector of Central Excise, Hyderabad

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Reported as [2003] SUPP. 5 S.C.R. 433
Decided 11 November 2003

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What the Court ordered

Held as under:- It is settled law that the onus or burden to show that a product fall within a particular Tariff Item is always on the revenue.

Judgment, page 21

From the headnote

Central Excises and Salt Act, 1944/Central Excise Tariff Act, 1985- Drugs and Cosmetics Act, 1940-Section 3(a) and 3(h)-Medicated cough drops and throat drops and sloan's balm and sloan's rub-Classification under tariff heading for levy of duty-Held: Products are manufactured under Ayurvedic drug licence; the customers, practitioners, dealers, licensing officials treat it as Ayurvedic medicines; all the ingredients are mentioned in the authoritative text books on Ayurveda, though are purified or added with some preservatives which does not alter their character-Hence, the products are

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