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Issues: Whether the auction purchaser of a secured asset acquired free and marketable title despite subsisting sales tax attachments, and whether the State tax authority could assert priority over the secured creditor after registration of the security interest with CERSAI.
Analysis: The decisive factor was the statutory priority created by Chapter IVA of the SARFAESI Act. Once the security interest was registered with CERSAI, priority of enforcement followed the sequence of registration, and the secured creditor's claim took precedence over later or unregistered competing claims. The State tax authority had not registered any attachment with CERSAI and had not issued a proclamation of sale. In these circumstances, the first charge under the MVAT Act had to yield to the priority conferred on the secured creditor under the SARFAESI Act. The auction purchaser, acquiring title through enforcement of that prior secured interest, was entitled to title free from the tax authority's encumbrance.
Conclusion: The tax authority had no enforceable priority over the secured asset, and the auction purchaser was entitled to clear and marketable title free of the impugned attachment.
Final Conclusion: The attachment over the secured asset could not survive against the prior registered security interest, and the purchaser's title was protected against the tax claim.
Ratio Decidendi: After registration of a security interest with CERSAI, the secured creditor's priority under the SARFAESI Act prevails over a State tax first charge unless the competing State claim is itself brought within the statutory priority framework.
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