Supreme Court of India

Commissioner of Central Excise, New Delhi v. M/s. Connaught Plaza Restaurant (p) Ltd., New Delhi

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Reported as [2012] 11 S.C.R. 365
Bench D.K. Jain and Jagdish Singh Khehar JJ.
Decided 27 November 2012

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the ratio of Akbar Badrudin Giwani (supra) does not apply to the facts of the present case.

Judgment, page 34

From the headnote

Central Excise and Tariff Act, 1985 - Chapter 21, Heading 21.05 - "Soft serve" - Classification - Term "ice- cream" under heading 21.05 - Common parlance test - Applicability of- Whether 'soft serve' served at the restaurants/ outlets commonly and popularly known as McDonalds, is classifiable under heading 21.05 (as claimed by the revenue) or under heading 04.04 or 2108.91 (as claimed by the assesseeJ - Held: Headings 04.04 and 21.05 are couched in non-technical terms - Neither the headings nor the chapter notes/section notes explicitly define the entries in a scientific or technical sense -

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