Supreme Court of India

Sales Tax Officer, Banaras & Others v. Kanhaiya Lal Mukundlal Saraf

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Decided 23 September 1958

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Under S. 72 of the Indian Contract Act, 1872: " person to whom money has been paid ... by mistake or under coercion must repay or return it ". The respondent, a registered firm, paid sales tax in respect of its forward transactions in pursuance of the assessment orders passed by the sales tax officer for the years 1949- 51, but in 1952, the Allahabad High Court having held in Messrs. Budh Prakash jai Prakash v. Sales Tax Officer, Kanpuy, 1952 .…

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