Supreme Court of India

State of Rajasthan & Ors. v. Combined Traders

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Reported as [2025] 4 S.C.R. 816
Bench Abhay S. Oka and Ujjal Bhuyan JJ.
Decided 16 April 2025

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that it was not within the competence of the State authorities under Section 13(3) and (4) of the Central Sales Tax Act to provide that a single declaration covering more than one transaction shall not be made.

Judgment, page 12

From the headnote

Issue for Consideration Sub-rule (20) of Rule 17 of the Central Sales Tax (Rajasthan) Rules, 1957 provided that where any dealer had generated declaration forms or certificates by misrepresentation of fact or by fraud or in contravention of the provisions of the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956 [CST Act] and rules made thereunder, the assessing authority or any other authority authorised by the Commissioner after affording such dealer an opportunity of being heard, is empowered to cancel such declaration forms or certificates. By the impugned judgment, the High Court held that the first

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