1974 (3) TMI 95

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....sessee is Messrs. Dev Datt Shastri, Jullundur, In both the references. They have arisen in the following circumstances. The assessee is engaged in the business of sale of magic rings, magic cameras, magic hair-oil, magic scent, etc. In addition to this, the assessee also engages in the business of astrology and makes money by reading his clients' fortunes. For the assessment year 1962-63, proceedi....

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....s right up to the Sales Tax Tribunal and this Is what the Tribunal observed: "The facts of the case are not very clear except that the petitioner has been selling small things like rings, tiny pistols, tiny scent bottles, tiny watches, which are cheap toy articles for children, etc., for a heavy price on the plea that they have been endowed by him with magical efficacy by his having recited som....

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....n one case the question of law pertained to the Punjab General Sales Tax Act and in the other to the Central Sales Tax Act: "Whether, on the facts and in the circumstances of the case, the supply of charmed articles by the assessee amounts to a sale and whether by reason of such supply the assessee is a dealer within the meaning of the expression in the Central Sales Tax Act, 1956." As the a....

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.... the assessee was not selling tawiz and thus was not rendering spiritual services. On the facts of the case before us, this is not so. The assessee is reciting mantras so as to transmit the spiritual element into material goods. The price charged is not the price of the material goods. The price charged has no proportion to the price of the goods sold. Thus, the price charged is in fact price for ....