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Issues: Whether sales tax arrears assessed against a registered society could be recovered personally from its former office-bearers, and whether the suit challenging such personal recovery was barred by the Punjab General Sales Tax Act, 1948 and the Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887.
Analysis: The assessment made against the society was not in dispute; only the attempt to fasten personal liability on the plaintiffs was challenged. Section 19 of the Punjab General Sales Tax Act, 1948 barred a civil court from questioning the assessment order itself, and section 158 of the Punjab Land Revenue Act, 1887 barred challenges to recovery proceedings, but neither provision covered a suit confined to the question whether the plaintiffs were personally liable for the society's dues. The society was registered under the Societies Registration Act, could hold property, and its rules showed that liabilities were to be met from the society's funds and property. In the absence of any statutory or constitutional basis for imposing the society's tax liability on individual members or ex-office bearers, recovery could not be made from them personally. A prima facie case and balance of convenience supported continuation of interim protection.
Conclusion: The personal recovery sought against the plaintiffs was not legally sustainable, and the grant of interim injunction was upheld.
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