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Issues: Whether the word "flour" in item No. 2 of Schedule I of the Bengal Finance (Sales Tax) Act, 1941, as it stood before the 1963 amendment, included barley powder and therefore exempted it from sales tax.
Analysis: The word "flour" was not defined in the Act and was held to be a word of everyday use requiring construction in its popular sense and in common parlance, not in a technical or botanical sense. On that approach, the expression was understood to mean wheat flour or maida, and not powdered barley. The inclusive words "atta, suji and bran" were treated as enlarging the exemption to cover those wheat products which would otherwise fall outside the popular meaning of flour, and not as widening the term to cover barley products. The later amendment substituting "wheat flour including atta and suji" and the later separate entry for barley products did not alter that conclusion or show that barley powder had ever been covered by item No. 2.
Conclusion: Barley powder was not included within item No. 2 of Schedule I and was not exempt from sales tax; it remained taxable under item No. 1.
Ratio Decidendi: A word in a sales tax exemption entry must be construed in its popular/common parlance sense, and where that sense is definite, beneficial construction cannot be used to enlarge the exemption beyond that meaning.
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