Sterling Machine Tools vs Commissioner Of Sales Tax on 23 August, 1978
Pumping sets, which have been found to be agricultural implements, are not taken out of the purview of item No. 1 and placed within the purview of item 52 by the 1974 amendment. That is done only in respect of water pumps. The High Court did not advert to this aspect at all. It only referred to its judgment in the case of Sterling Machine Tools v. Commissioner of, Sales Tax, U.P, [1979] 43 STC 72 ; wherein the question of the amendment of the items did not arise and no finding of fact by the revisional authority had been made in favour of the assessee. The High Court's view must be reversed."