Collector Of Central Excise, Hyderabad v. Hyderabad Race Club
1996-11-19
K.VENKATASWAMI, S.P.BHARUCHA
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JUDGMENT Bharucha, J.-The Revenue challenges the correctness of the order of Customs, Excise and Gold (Control) Appellate Tribunal which holds that the totaliser system installed at the race course of the respondents was not liable to excise duty. Upon the record before it, the Tribunal came to the conclusion that the totaliser was embedded in the earth and was not goods upon which excise duty was leviable. 2. Having regard to the judgment that we have just delivered in M/s. Mittal Engineering Works (P) Ltd. v. Collector of Central Excise, Meerut1, 1and the content of a totaliser or tote machine employed at a race course as found by the Tribunal upon the evidence, the same is not goods for the purposes of levy of excise duty. 3. The appeal is dismissed with no order as to costs. Appeal dismissed. ******** Parallel Citations of other Journals : Collector of Centaral Excise v. Hyderabad Race Club, 1997(6) Supreme 51 00025