1997 (3) TMI 120

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....rt question is whether brake lining blanks purchased by the appellant when put to the process of drilling, trimming and chamfering can be said to amount to manufacturing within the meaning of Section 2(f) of the Central Excises and Salt Act, 1944. The High Court has examined this question in considerable detail and has then observed in paragraph 15 as under : "If by a process, a change is....

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...., which it did not bear earlier, then the process would amount to manufacture within the meaning of Section 2(f) irrespective of the fact whether there has been a single process or have been several processes." 2. The learned Single Judge from whose judgment the Division Bench was considering the appeal had pointed out that brake lining blanks could not be used by owners of motor vehicles witho....