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1961 (6) TMI 17

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..... levied in respect of purchase of paddy under item 5 any subsequent purchase of rice converted from such paddy is not liable to tax under item 6." The contention of the petitioner which he unsuccessfully urged before the Sales Tax Appellate Tribunal and repeated before us is that as he paid purchase tax on the paddy, the parched rice prepared out of the same paddy could not be subjected to tax once again. In support of this argument, reliance is placed by Sri Veerabhad. rayya, learned counsel for the petitioner, on Kapildeoram v. J.K. Das[1954] 5 S.T.C. 365; A.I.R. 1954 Assam 170., which contains the proposition that "chira" and "muri" which are "forms of rice" are included in the expression "all cereals" occurring in the relevant statute. .....

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..... e Legislature here has advisedly used the expression "paddy and rice". It has not said "paddy and/or all products of paddy". Therefore, it is unnecessary for us to consider whether the principle embodied in the cited case is correct, since this ruling does not furnish any analogy here. The pronouncement of their Lordships of the Supreme Court also is not helpful to the petitioner, since their Lordships have laid down that hydrogenated groundnut oil and groundnut oil could be put to the same uses and that the hydrogenated groundnut oil continues to be groundnut oil in spite of the processing employed for the purpose of rendering the oil more stable to improve its keeping qualities for those who desire to consume groundnut oil. The position .....

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..... Hyderabad State[1954] 5 S.T.C. 334; A.I.R. 1954 Hyd. 94. In Kosuri Subba Raju v. State of Andhra[1956] 7 S.T.C. 479., a Divisional Bench of the Andhra High Court consisting of Subba Rao, C.J., and Viswanatha Sastry, J., decided that nawar tape (material woven in bands and used as mat for cots) could not be regarded as cloth within the definition of "cloth" under section 5(iii) of the Madras General Sales Tax Act, 1939. The decision in Pithapuram Taluk Tobacco, Cigars and Soda Merchants' Union v. State of Andhra Pradesh[1958] 9 S.T.C. 723., accords with the doctrine of the above cases. The principle embodied in the last cited case is that country tobacco which was subject to levy of sales tax at a single purchase point did not include cigare .....

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