1964 (9) TMI 42

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....his is a reference under section 44 of the Madhya Pradesh General Sales Tax Act, 1958, at the instance of the Commissioner of Sales Tax. The question propounded for our decision is: "Whether the word 'drinks' in item No. 49 of Part II of Schedule II to the Act includes aerated waters?" 2.. The material facts are that the assessee M/s. Jabalpur Aerated Water Factory, Jabalpur, manufactures and d....

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....essences and gulkand, etc." The only entry in Part VI of the Second Schedule is with regard to the taxability at the rate of 4 per cent. of "all other goods not included in Schedule I or any other part of this Schedule" (that is Schedule II). Thus, if any article does not fall in the list of goods exempted from tax enumerated in Schedule I and is not covered by any item in Parts I to V of Sched....

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....lied for the construction of the initial general words "all kinds of eatables and drinks packed in tins or bottles" in entry No. 49. In this view we are fortified by a decision of the Madras High Court in Rajagopala Pandarathar v. T. Pillai A.I.R. 1923 Mad. 511., where the description of a mortgage property given in a deed contained the expression, "all kinds of trees, topes, wells, ponds, tank-bu....