Supreme Court of India

Commissioner of Customs, Central Excise & Service Tax, Rajkot v. Narsibhai Karamsibhai Gajera & Ors.

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Reported as [2025] 12 S.C.R. 281
Bench Pamidighantam Sri Narasimha and Atul S. Chandurkar JJ.
Decided 2 December 2025

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What the Court ordered

For the aforesaid reasons, the order passed by the CESTAT dated 05.10.2011 is quashed and set aside and the Order-in-Original passed by the Commissioner, Central Excise dated 27.09.2006 stands restored.

Judgment, page 14

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Whether the CESTAT fell in error while coming to the conclusion that the conversion of grey fabrics to cotton fabrics did not include an integral process of stentering undertaken with the aid of power and thus the benefit of the Exemption Notification was available to Unit No.1. Whether the Order-in-Original rightly considers the entire process of manufacture which is conversion of grey fabrics into cotton fabrics for being cleared by Unit No.1 as one and fastening liability on it. Headnotes† Central Excise Act, 1944 – ss.11AB, 11AC, 35-L(b) – Appellant’s case that on

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