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SAMEER JAIN
Commercial Taxes officer, Circle-A, Jaipur – Appellant
Versus
Bharti Hexacom Limited – Respondent
ORDER :
(Sameer Jain, J.)
Present revision petitions were admitted on following question of law:-
(ii) Whether the Tax Board was justified in law in holding that sale of Data Transmission through OFC using ACLE is not a "Deemed Sale" under RVAT Act?"
2. It is the case of the revenue-petitioner that light carrier/ACLE, used by telecommunication companies like the present assessee-respondent, is a movable property capable of being guided from point to point, having all the stipulated attributes of goods like abstraction, possession, transfer, use, delivery, etc., and works very much like 'electric energy' and therefore is liable to be treated as 'goods' as defined under Section 2 (15) of the Rajasthan Value Added Tax Act, 2003 (in short "RVAT Act") and taxed accordingly.
3. On previous occasions, learned counsel for the assessee-respondent had submitted that the lis in question is squarely covered by the judgment of Karnataka High Court in the assessee's own case reported in (2011) 44 VST 486 (Karnataka) titled as Bharti Airtel
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