Supreme Court of India

M/s. K.P. Mozika v. Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Ltd. and Ors

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Reported as [2024] 1 S.C.R. 488
Bench Abhay S. Oka and Rajesh Bindal JJ.
Decided 9 January 2024

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What the Court ordered

Accordingly, we allow all the appeals of the assessees by holding that the contracts are not covered by the relevant provisions of the Sales Tax Act and of the VAT Act, as the contracts do not provide for the transfer of the right to use the goods made available to the person who is allowed to use the same.

Judgment, page 29

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration In a group of appeals, the assessee have, under a contract, agreed to provide different categories of motor vehicles, such as trucks, trailers, tankers, buses, scrapping winch chassis, and cranes, to the Oil and Natural Gas Corporation Limited (ONGC). In the other cases where Indian Oil Corporation Limited (IOCL) has entered into agreements with transporters to provide tank trucks to deliver its petroleum products. Whether, by hiring the motor vehicles/ cranes, there is a transfer of the right to use any goods. If there is a transfer of the right to use the goods, it

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