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Issues: Whether the Sales Tax Officer, Ghaziabad, retained jurisdiction to initiate and impose penalty under the Central Sales Tax Act after the assessee's registration was transferred to Lucknow.
Analysis: Section 10-A of the Central Sales Tax Act empowered the authority who granted the registration certificate, or the authority competent to grant it, to impose penalty for offences under section 10. The officer at Ghaziabad had granted the registration certificate and the penalty proceedings related to offences committed during the period when that registration was in force. The subsequent transfer of registration and jurisdiction to Lucknow did not extinguish the earlier authority's power to proceed on past offences. The Court also treated the penalty proceedings as validly initiated and held that the later transfer did not invalidate them.
Conclusion: The Sales Tax Officer, Ghaziabad, had jurisdiction to initiate and impose penalty, and the High Court erred in holding otherwise.
Final Conclusion: The appeal succeeded, the High Court's answer on jurisdiction was set aside, and the matter was sent back for determination of the remaining questions.
Ratio Decidendi: For penalty under section 10-A of the Central Sales Tax Act, the authority that granted the registration certificate retains competence to proceed for offences committed while that certificate was operative, and a later transfer of the assessee's registration does not by itself divest that authority of jurisdiction.
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