State Of Gujarat vs Newage Hose Manufacturing Co. on 22 March, 1991
6. From the said process it becomes clear that the process as to which the cotton fabric is subjected by the opponent is the process which would fall within sub-clause (v) of clause (f) of section 2 of the Central Excises and Salt Act. The process of rubberising is a specific process referred to in the definition of "manufacture" given by section 2(f), sub-clause (v). The Tribunal, therefore, found that the products in question would fall within the meaning of "cotton fabric" mentioned in item No. 19 in the First Schedule to the Central Excises and Salt Act. In reading this section, the Tribunal referred to and relied upon the language and meaning of the word "cotton fabric" after its amendment by the Central Excises and Salt Act and Additional Duties of Excise (Amendment) Ordinance, 1978, being Ordinance No. 12 of 1970. Therefore, for the reasons extensively stated by us in our judgment in Sales Tax Reference No. 14 of 1981 [Reported as Shah Textile Mills Pvt. Ltd. v. State of Gujarat [1992] 85 STC 515 (Guj)], we hold that the Tribunal was right in holding that the "rubberised cotton hose pipes" and "rubberised cotton-cum-synthetic fibre hose pipes" produced and sold by the opponent would fall within the definition of "cotton fabric" as contained in item No. 19 in the First Schedule to the Central Excises and Salt Act.