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Issues: Whether section 29 of the State Financial Corporations Act, 1951 prevails over sections 26A and 26B of the Kerala General Sales Tax Act, 1963, and whether the State can proceed against the sale consideration and the transferee for recovery of sales tax arrears.
Analysis: Section 29 of the State Financial Corporations Act, 1951 is only an enabling provision empowering the financial corporation to take over and realise the mortgaged property; it does not create any charge in its favour. By contrast, section 26A of the Kerala General Sales Tax Act, 1963 renders transfers void in specified circumstances and section 26B gives sales tax arrears the status of a first charge on the property. Since the tax arrears had accrued before the sale by the financial corporation, the statutory charge of the State had already attached to the property. The transfer in favour of the purchaser was therefore not binding on the Government, and the State was entitled to proceed against the property and the realised consideration.
Conclusion: Section 29 of the State Financial Corporations Act, 1951 does not prevail over sections 26A and 26B of the Kerala General Sales Tax Act, 1963, and the State's first charge for sales tax arrears is enforceable against the property and the sale proceeds.
Ratio Decidendi: Where a sales tax statute creates a statutory first charge over property, that charge prevails over the rights of a mortgagee or financial corporation acting under an enabling power of sale, and transfers made after the charge has attached are ineffective against the State.
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