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Issues: Whether entry No. 3 of Notification No. A-3-32-97-ST-V-(22) dated May 9, 1997 granting concessional tax on basic drugs was a conditional exemption requiring proof that the drugs were used as raw material for manufacture of medicines.
Analysis: The words "when used as raw material for manufacture of medicines" were held to be qualifying words attached to "basic drugs" and were given their plain and natural meaning. The exemption was treated as conditional, and the benefit was held available only if the dealer satisfied the authorities that the goods were basic drugs actually used as raw material for manufacture of medicines. The Court rejected the contention that the qualifying words were redundant or that drafting difficulty could justify a different construction.
Conclusion: The exemption applied only on fulfilment of the stated condition, and the petitioner was not entitled to quashing of the Commissioner's order on the interpretation urged.
Final Conclusion: The writ petition failed because the notification was construed as a conditional tax concession confined to basic drugs used as raw material for manufacture of medicines.
Ratio Decidendi: Exemption notifications must be construed according to their plain language, and where qualifying words impose a condition, the concession is available only upon strict satisfaction of that condition.
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