1996 (2) TMI 135

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....r. K. Ramkumar, Advocate, for the respondents. [Order]. - The appeal upon certificate impugns a judgment of a Division Bench of the Karnataka High Court. 2.The respondent had imported miniaturised switches for use in electronic hearing aids which it manufactured. It appears that there are two types of such switches, the conventional one then being wafer switches and the other, newly innovated, b....

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....publication of the Import Policy for the relevant year, namely 1977, and that these words could not be said to include any other type of switch even if such other type of switch could be used in the manufacture of hearing aids. The Division Bench observed, in our view, very rightly, that such an interpretation overlooked that industry was not static and that there was continuous technical progress....