Kher Stone Crusher vs General Manager, District Industries ... on 3 July, 1990
The comments made by the Division Bench in the case of Bheraghat Mineral Industries (printed at page 156 infra) ; [1987] 20 VKN 290 (MP), in paragraph 9, do create an impression that the Division Bench did not consider the case of G.R. Kulkarni [1957] 8 STC 294 (MP), as laying down a correct law. On perusal of all the referred cases in the decision of the case of Bheraghat Mineral Industries (printed at page 156 infra) ; [1987] 20 VKN 290 (MP), we find that the Division Bench was not correct in throwing a doubt on the correctness of the decision in the case of G.R. Kulkarni [1957] 8 STC 294 (MP). We may clarify that the single Bench decision of this Court in the case of Wasudeo [1955] 6 STC 30 (Nag), was a case of cutting of standing trees and converting them into timber of transportable size. The above single Bench decision was only referred to by the Division Bench in the case of G.R. Kulkarni [1957] 8 STC 294 (MP), but no reliance was placed on the same in paragraph 5 of the said decision, obviously because the manufacturing process under consideration in G.R. Kulkarni's case [1957] 8 STC 294 (MP), was making of metal or ballast from the stones.