2018 (2) TMI 1448

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....tter of Suresh Kumar Bansal and Others in the impugned order is not legal and proper, inasmuch as the said judgment was not "in rem", rather it was "in-personnem". Thus, the Revenue contented that the issue decided in the case of Suresh Kumar Bansal and others cannot be applied in case of the present appellants. 2. Heard both side perused the case records. 3. Brief facts of the case are that the appellants herein, have filed refund application based upon the order of the Hon'ble Delhi High Court in above cases, wherein, the levy of Service Tax was challenged on services in relation to the construction of complex as defined under Section 65(105)(zzzh) of the Finance Act, 1994. The appellants have filed the application on the ground that th....

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....ly reflects that Service Tax cannot be charged in respect of the composite contracts entered into with the builders. The judgment delivered is general in nature and nowhere in the entire judgment it has been stated that the said judgment will be applicable exclusively to the petitioners only. So far as the opinion of the adjudicating authority that applicability of the said case in personnem is concerned, I do not feel myself in agreement with the same because the verdict has been given in absolute and unequivocal terms. There in not denying that the said writ petition has been filed by certain individual buyers of under construction flats, yet its connotation are such that it has wide ranging effects on all such buyers especially when they....