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Issues: Whether the assessment orders imposing interest and penalty on GST under reverse charge mechanism in relation to seigniorage fee, lease charges and District Mineral Fund payments required interference, and whether the remaining portions of the assessment orders were to be left undisturbed.
Analysis: The challenge was confined to the levy of interest and penalty on the specified components of the assessment orders. The Court applied the directions already issued in the connected batch of writ petitions, under which adjudication on such issues was to proceed in accordance with law and the impugned orders were to be dealt with consistently with those directions. The order also recorded that the assessment orders would not be interfered with on other aspects.
Conclusion: The petitions were disposed of in terms of the earlier directions, with the challenge to interest and penalty on seigniorage fee, lease charges and District Mineral Fund payments receiving relief, while the assessment orders were otherwise left undisturbed.
Final Conclusion: The petitioners obtained only limited relief on the disputed GST components, and the balance of the assessment orders continued to operate.
Ratio Decidendi: Where a later batch of writ petitions raises the same GST issues already governed by binding directions in a connected decision, the Court may dispose of the matters on the same terms while leaving unaffected portions of the assessment orders intact.