1971 (2) TMI 79

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....n petitions on the ground that it was not a competent authority to hear revisions under section 18 of the Cochin Act. This writ petition has been filed to direct the State Government to appoint a Commissioner of Sales Tax to hear and dispose of the revisions under section 18 of the Cochin Act, to quash the order exhibit P-1 of the Board of Revenue, and to direct it to restore the revision petitions and return the same to the petitioner for presenting the same to the Commissioner of Sales Tax to be appointed by the State Government. 2.. The Cochin Sales Tax Act, 1121, was repealed and replaced by the Travancore-Cochin General Sales Tax Act, 1125, which came into force on 30th May, 1950. Section 25 of the Travancore-Cochin Act reads: "25. P....

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....s Tax under the Cochin Act, the petitioner's counsel contends that it can be done under section 25 of the Travancore-Cochin Act; and he relies on a decision of a learned Single judge of this court in P.V.M. Koya v. The Sales Tax Officer, KozhikodeO.P. No. 975 of 1960. That is a case in which, under more or less similar circumstances, the learned Judge issued a writ directing the State Government to appoint a Commissioner of Sales Tax to hear and dispose of the revision petitions under section 18 of the Cochin Act; and that decision fully supports the petitioner. But I am unable to follow that decision in view of a later Division Bench decision of this court in Paramu v. Sales Tax Officer[1967] 19 S.T.C. 138; 1966 K.L.J. 728. In that case th....