1986 (9) TMI 384

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.... petitioners.   B. Datta Additional Solicitor-General (Girish, Miss Sushma Relan and C.V. Subba Rao, Advocate, with him), for the respondents.   --------------------------------------------------   The judgment of the Court was delivered by   V. KHALID, J.-The petitioners are the same in these two petitions. They deal in bright-bars. These are declared goods within ....

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....nge fell for consideration before this Court in the case reported in Govind Saran Ganga Saran v. Commissioner of Sales Tax [1985] 60 STC 1 (SC); AIR 1985 SC 1041. The challenge was upheld and assessment order in that case was set aside. The ratio of the decision is this. Section 15(a) of the Central Act provides that every sales tax law of a State shall be subject to the restriction and conditi....

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....dealers at which any goods or class of goods can be taxed. This Court observed that no notification was brought to its notice. We follow the principles laid down in the above decision and hold that, in the absence of any notification, the assessment orders challenged in these petitions have to be quashed. We do so. However, we would like to make it clear that the quashing of the assessment o....