1970 (10) TMI 59

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..... aid levy was challenged by the petitioner, among others, by a writ petition filed before this court. Against the decision of this court, the petitioner preferred C.A. No. 1595 of 1966 to the Supreme Court of India, who allowed the appeal and issued a mandamus directing the respondents to the said appeal to refund the health cess illegally collected under the Health Cess Act, 1962, from the petitio .....

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..... able for the sales tax assessed on the subcontractors. An oral hearing was given to the petitioner's counsel. After hearing, the respondent-the Commissioner of Commercial Taxes-made the impugned order dated 20th October, 1967, by which he overruled the objections of the petitioner and ordered that a sum equivalent to the sales tax arrears due by the sub-lessees of the petitioner shall be withheld .....

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..... sdiction on the Commissioner of Commercial Taxes to adjust the sales tax due from an assessee towards the amount refundable to another person by the Government. The learned Government Pleader has not shown us any statutory provision which empowers the respondent to make the impugned order. It was submitted by him that the order was made in exercise of his administrative powers. The powers of the C .....

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