1961 (3) TMI 81

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....ndment) Order, 1951, is proper". 2.. The admitted facts are rather simple. The assessee is a registered dealer under the Orissa Sales Tax Act bearing Registration No. PUI 1552, carrying on business at Sakhigopal in cocoanuts. The assessee was assessed under sub-section (2) of section 12 of the Orissa Sales Tax Act for the quarters ending on 30th September, 1950, and 31st March, 1950. The assessee purchased cocoanuts from producers as well as from other dealers in Orissa and sold them to dealers outside Orissa by transporting the said commodities by rail. The purchasers outside Orissa used to place orders with the assessee whereafter they collected necessary quantities of cocoanuts and booked them by rail endorsing the railway receipts as s....

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....used the whole issue. The question whether or not the assessee is liable to taxation under Article 286(1)(a) was not pointedly argued before the Tribunal. But that certainly arose out of the first appellate order. Mr. G.K. Misra, learned counsel on behalf of the Department argued that since the point was not raised before the Appellate Tribunal, it has now reached a finality. Be that as it may, this Court cannot allow an illegality to be perpetuated. What the first appellate court did was that he referred to the Explanation to sub-clause (a) of Article 286(1)(a) which reads as follows: "(1) No law of a State shall impose, or authorise the imposition of a tax on the sale or purchase of goods where such sale or purchase takes place: (a) outs....