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Issues: (i) Whether the National Textile Corporation, as successor to the sick textile undertaking, was liable for handloom cess demanded for the period prior to 1-4-1974; (ii) whether grey markin was liable to handloom cess as "cloth" within the Charging Act.
Issue (i): Whether the National Textile Corporation, as successor to the sick textile undertaking, was liable for handloom cess demanded for the period prior to 1-4-1974.
Analysis: Under the nationalisation law, liabilities of the erstwhile owner for periods before the appointed day remained enforceable against that owner and not against the Central Government or the National Textile Corporation. The demand for the pre-1-4-1974 period therefore could not be enforced against the appellants in their capacity as a unit of the National Textile Corporation.
Conclusion: The appellants were not liable for handloom cess for the period prior to 1-4-1974.
Issue (ii): Whether grey markin was liable to handloom cess as "cloth" within the Charging Act.
Analysis: The definition of "cloth" in the Charging Act referred to the meaning assigned in the Central Excise tariff schedule. A construction excluding all fabrics would render the levy ineffective and defeat the statute's purpose. The term "cloth" was therefore treated as synonymous with "fabrics" used in the relevant tariff entries. In the absence of evidence to the contrary, grey markin, described by the appellants themselves as cotton fabrics and treated in trade usage as a variety of cloth, fell within the levy. The contention based on the absence of basic excise duty also failed, because the cess was an additional levy to be collected in the same manner as excise duty and was not confined only to goods on which basic duty was actually collected.
Conclusion: Grey markin was liable to handloom cess as cloth.
Final Conclusion: The demand was set aside only for the pre-1-4-1974 period, while the levy was upheld for the remaining period and for the other appeals.
Ratio Decidendi: Where a statutory levy would be defeated by a narrow construction, the court may adopt the interpretation that advances the object of the enactment, and a successor nationalised undertaking is not answerable for pre-appointed-day liabilities of the erstwhile owner.
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