Supreme Court of India

Shabinaabraham & Ors. v. Collector of Central Excise & Customs

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Reported as [2015] 8 S.C.R. 151
Bench A. K. Sikri and R. F. Nariman JJ.
Decided 29 July 2015

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the High Court was right in holding that the assessment order ooJhe F dissolved firm could not be supported under the provisions of the Act.

Judgment, page 25

From the headnote

Central Excises and Salt Act, 1944 - s. 4(3)(a) - Assessment under - Whether can continue against the legal c representatives/estate of the sole proprietor/ manufacturer after he is dead - Held: There is no separate machinery provided by the Act to proceed against a dead person for , assessing him totax under.the Act- In view of definition of assessee u/s. s.4(3)(a), ati 'assessee' can only be a living person - The definition being exhaustive in nature, nothing else can be read in the definition - Even the definition of ''person" in the General Clauses Act does not include legal

Where later benches applied it

Of those, 1 referred to

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