TMI Blog1973 (11) TMI 65X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... rom oil-seeds. It established a solvent extraction plant for recovery of oil from oil-cakes and rice bran. In the course of sales tax assessment proceedings the petitioner claimed that the solvent rice bran sold by it was exempt from tax. The Sales Tax Officer did not agree and by an assessment order dated 26th March, 1973, passed for the assessment year 1968-69, it held that the deoiled rice bran ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... btained is variable as it depends upon the degree of polishing. Bran constitutes roughly 6 to 10 per cent of paddy rice. Bran is normally used as cattle feed." The petitioner processes paddy as follows: During the process of shelling and husking the paddy in order to get the grain of rice, it is subjected to polishing. In the process of polishing the rice, the outer layer of the rice grain is re ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... reen fodder, chuni, bhusi, chhilka, chokar, cotton seed, gowar and oil-cake" were all exempted from tax. According to the petitioner, the de-oiled rice bran is either cattle fodder, or chuni, or oil-cake within the meaning of this notification and so, it is exempt from tax. The Sales Tax Officer held that from enquiry from various firms to which the petitioner sells the de-oiled rice bran it app ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X ..... in an official report coupled with the allegation in paragraph 15 of the writ petition that de-oiled rice bran is used as a cattle feed, and coupled with the significant fact that this assertion in the writ petition has not as such been denied in the counter-affidavit, leads us to believe the case of the petitioner that de-oiled rice bran is used, inter alia, as cattle feed. The word "fodder" h ..... X X X X Extracts X X X X X X X X Extracts X X X X
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