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Issues: Whether the assessment orders and appellate orders could be quashed under Article 226 of the Constitution of India on the ground that sales tax had been wrongly levied by including excise duty in the taxable turnover, and whether the writ petitions were barred by delay or laches.
Analysis: The levy was held to suffer from a mistake of law because the later Supreme Court decision established that excise duty not included in the sale bill could not be added to taxable turnover. The Court treated the impugned orders as containing an error apparent on the face of the record and held that the existence of statutory remedies did not prevent relief under Article 226 in the circumstances. On delay, the Court applied the principle that a writ based on discovery of a mistake must be filed within a reasonable time, and accepted the petitioners' explanation for the short delay after the decisive Supreme Court ruling was reported.
Conclusion: The writ petitions were maintainable and the impugned assessment and appellate orders were liable to be quashed; the decision was in favour of the petitioner.
Ratio Decidendi: Where tax has been collected under a mistake of law revealed by a binding later decision, and the writ is filed within a reasonable time after discovery of the mistake, the High Court may grant relief under Article 226 notwithstanding the existence of alternative statutory remedies.
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