Supreme Court of India

M/s. Prachi Industries v. Commissioner of Central Excise, Chandigarh

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Reported as [2008] 5 S.C.R. 560
Bench S.H. Kapadia J.
Decided 28 March 2008

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What the Court ordered

We are of the view that in the present case the rotary swaging machine with different dies therein imparts a change of lasting character to the plane pipe or tube by use of dies.

Judgment, page 9

From the headnote

Central Excise Act, 1944; s. 2(f): Manufacture - Swaging of tubes whether amounts to c manufacture - Held: Manufacture of a product means any process incidental/ancillary to the completion of manufacturing of a product - Finished product so obtained must be of distinguishable identity in the form of physical shape, size and use - In the present case, swaging imparts a change of lasting character to the plane MS-tubes - It undergoes a change both in terms of form/shape and user - MS tubes being used to ~ carry water whereas work piece, the product obtained after swaging of MS tubes, used as

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