Cc vs S.P. Apparels on 14 October, 2003
Reliance was placed on the Hon'ble Supreme Court judgment in the case of J.K. Cotton Mills 1997 (91) ELT 34 (SC) where the Court had observed that the expression "in the manufacture of goods" should normally encompass the entire processes carried on by the dealer for converting raw materials into finished goods wherein the particular process is so integrally connected with the ultimate production of the goods that but for that process manufacturing of processing of goods would be commercially inexpedient. Goods 'required' in that process would in our judgment fall within the expression "in the manufacture of goods". Based on the above, it was decided by the CEGAT, Chennai, that the manufacture of textile garments/knitted garments. The CEGAT, EZB, Kolkata, in the case of M/s. Rupa & Co. Ltd. (supra) also stated that processing machines, including Fabric Inspection Machines, used to avoid manufacturing defects are required for manufacture of garments as "the process of manufacture of textile garments.... States with the inspection and reversal of the fabric and thereafter various process are required to be undergone for the actual manufacture of garments.