Exemption for transformer parts under Notification No. 160/86 followed earlier co-ordinate decision and defeated departmental challenge.

Transformer parts were treated as eligible for exemption under Notification No. 160/86, because an earlier co-ordinate decision had already accepted the same claim on identical facts. That prior reasoning was followed in the present matter, so the exemption claim succeeded and the departmental appeals failed. The controlling principle was that where an earlier decision has determined eligibility under the notification, subsequent identical appeals are governed by the same view.

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Issues: Whether transformer parts were eligible for exemption under Notification No. 160/86.

Analysis: The dispute turned on the applicability of the exemption notification to transformer parts. The issue had already been decided in an earlier order holding that such parts were eligible for the exemption, and the same reasoning was followed.

Conclusion: Transformer parts were held eligible for exemption under Notification No. 160/86, and the departmental appeals were dismissed.

Final Conclusion: The exemption claim succeeded, and the departmental challenge failed.

Ratio Decidendi: Where an earlier co-ordinate decision has already held transformer parts eligible under the exemption notification, the same view governs subsequent identical appeals.

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