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1987 (3) TMI 346

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..... 8) 17-CL-37/79/15272, dated 20-8-1980 the Assistant Collector of Central Excise, Division K, Bombay decided that goods like welded trays, wire tiffin, tub; pappad dabba, garma dabbas, dhokla dabba, daba ubha and dabba baitha would not be utensils, under the meaning of Notification No. 244/77-CE. He said that wire tiffin was used carrying food while tub and bucket were used for storing water and he .....

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..... rds as we know them it is not possible, to conceive of utensils as not being associated with the kitchen, principally as a vessel in which cooking is done. We are all familiar with aluminium utensils which have largely replaced the heavier, older, iron utensils for cooking. 3. The error in the assessee s case is that they would like even a tray to be assessed as a utensil. Nobody regards a tray .....

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..... g etc. and that, as such, use of the goods to be utensils need not be confined to the domestic kitchen only. There is not much more reason than this. It is difficult to agree with him and with his findings that things like welded trays, wire tiffin etc. are utensils. 6. At the hearing at which the assessees did not appear, the learned Counsel for the department said that a similar question arose .....

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