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Issues: Whether the expression "handloom and powerloom weavers" in the exemption notification covers dealers who manufacture cloth on handlooms and powerlooms through employed workmen, and whether such dealers are consequently exempt from entry tax liability.
Analysis: The notification was issued under section 12(1)(ii) of the M.P. General Sales Tax Act, 1958, exempting a class of dealers from the operation of specified provisions. The Court held that the words used in the notification do not add any requirement that the weaving must be done personally, and no words such as "per se" appear in the text. The expression "weavers" was read in its natural sense, together with the statutory emphasis on a "class of dealers", to include dealers manufacturing cloth on handlooms and powerlooms with the assistance of employed workers. The Court further held that a restrictive reading would create an artificial class within a class and would be inconsistent with the object of the exemption. Since the dealers were not liable to sales tax under the State Act, the entry tax consequence under the Madhya Pradesh Sthaniya Kshetra Me Mal Ke Pravesh Par Kar Adhiniyam, 1976 did not survive.
Conclusion: The exemption notification applies to such dealers, and they are not liable to entry tax.
Ratio Decidendi: An exemption notification must be construed according to its plain language and statutory context, and where it exempts a class of dealers as "weavers" without restrictive words, the benefit cannot be denied by reading in a requirement of personal weaving.
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