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Issues: (i) Whether the petitioner was entitled to refund of the amount retained by the State authorities in the absence of any stay of the earlier High Court order; (ii) whether interest on the refunded amount was to be granted immediately or kept pending.
Issue (i): Whether the petitioner was entitled to refund of the amount retained by the State authorities in the absence of any stay of the earlier High Court order.
Analysis: The refund claim was examined in the light of the binding effect of an existing High Court decision and the absence of any stay from the Supreme Court. The Court also relied on the constitutional principle that no tax can be levied or retained without authority of law and referred to the statutory procedure for refund of tax wrongly realised under Section 43 of the Uttar Pradesh Value Added Tax Act, 2008. Since the tax burden had been passed on to the buyer, the refund was directed to be made in accordance with law upon furnishing of an indemnity bond and subject to unjust enrichment.
Conclusion: The petitioner was entitled to refund of the principal amount, and the direction for refund was upheld in favour of the assessee.
Issue (ii): Whether interest on the refunded amount was to be granted immediately or kept pending.
Analysis: The prayer for interest was not finally accepted at this stage. The Court deferred release of interest and left it to abide by the outcome before the Supreme Court, while directing immediate refund only of the principal amount.
Conclusion: Immediate interest was declined and the claim for interest was kept pending.
Final Conclusion: The impugned rejection of refund was set aside and the authorities were directed to release the principal refund to the buyer subject to indemnity and statutory compliance, while the question of interest remained deferred.
Ratio Decidendi: In the absence of a stay, a subsisting High Court order remains binding, and tax retained without authority of law must be refunded in accordance with the statutory refund mechanism, subject to unjust enrichment.
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