GST CASE LAWS 26.10.2026
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| Relevant Act | Section | Case Law Title | Citation | Brief Summary |
| Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 2 | Navitas Eduservices (P.) Ltd. v. Commissioner of CGST, South Delhi | Click Here | Marketing and support services provided by an Indian subsidiary to its foreign parent as an independent subcontractor do not constitute intermediary services; thus, they qualify as exports with place of supply outside India, allowing an ITC refund. |
| Integrated Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 7 | Ghanshyam Null Singh v. Himanshu Verma | Click Here | Transporter failed to produce timely, credible documentation proving goods belonged to genuine buyers/sellers during transit interception; hence, transit passage benefits could not be claimed. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 16 | Kunwar Mrityunjay v. Deepak Lamination | Click Here | ITC cannot be denied solely based on a supplier being reported non-existent post-facto without examining supporting documents and actual physical movement of goods. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 16 | RLCR 7Super Market v. Sunil N. Ranote, Additional Commissioner (Appeals) | Click here | Remand ordered for de novo verification of prior-year ITC, IGST paid under the wrong head, and ITC availed under wrong heads where appellate authority denied relief purely due to lack of verification. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 16 | Sandvik Coromant India (P.) Ltd. v. Commissioner of Commercial Taxes | Click here | ITC is allowable for invoices supported by underlying documents, summary invoices covered in GSTR-2A, and import IGST backed by Bills of Entry, but disallowance stands where proof of supplier’s tax payment is missing. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 34 | Sandvik Coromant India (P.) Ltd. v. Commissioner of Commercial Taxes | Click here | Failure to report sales-return credit notes in GSTR-1 does not revive or create output tax liability if credit notes were properly recorded in books and satisfied statutory conditions. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 35 | Sandvik Coromant India (P.) Ltd. v. Commissioner of Commercial Taxes | Click here | Addition of profit on deemed sales by treating inward e-way bills as outward supplies is illegal when all goods are fully accounted for and reconciled by the taxpayer. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 50 | Sandvik Coromant India (P.) Ltd. v. Commissioner of Commercial Taxes | Click here | No interest or penalty applies to wrongly availed ITC reversed prior to SCN issuance if cash/ITC ledger balances never dropped below the wrongly claimed amount (no deemed utilization). |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 50 | RLCR 7Super Market v. Sunil N. Ranote, Additional Commissioner (Appeals) | Click here | Statutory interest is payable on any tax finally determined as due; recomputation of interest and penalty must align with the final tax assessment upon remand. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 54 | Vikram Inderjit Kapur v. Deputy Commissioner of State Tax | Click here | Partial rejection of an ITC refund without issuing Form RFD-08 or granting a pre-decisional opportunity of hearing renders the rejection order void ab initio. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 54 | Vikram Inderjit Kapur v. Deputy Commissioner of State Tax | Click here | Rejection of refund claims via RFD-06 without RFD-08 or hearing violates mandatory procedure, requiring de novo processing with invoice-wise show cause notices and hearing opportunities. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 54 | Hemlata Jaiswal v. Pacific Leather (P.) Ltd. | Click Here | Manufacturer paying Compensation Cess on inputs (e.g., coal) without cess on outputs is not entitled to inverted duty refund of unutilized Compensation Cess ITC unless Section 54(3) conditions are satisfied. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 54 | Panila Chem Ltd. v. State of Gujarat | Click here | Where electronic summary (Form APL-04) of a favorable appellate order was uploaded after a long delay, a refund application filed immediately thereafter is deemed within limitation. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 54 | Ajit Kumar Minz v. B.L. Agro Industries Ltd. | Click here | Voluntary provisional ITC reversal in GSTR-3B communicated by letter cannot be withheld or retained by authorities without a quantified demand or statutory basis. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 54 | Ajit Kumar Minz v. B.L. Agro Industries Ltd. | Click here | Refund entitlement for a provisional ITC reversal in one period cannot be withheld on account of unrelated ITC disputes for different tax periods. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 54 | Ajit Kumar Minz v. B.L. Agro Industries Ltd. | Click here | Withholding or denying a refund of provisional ITC reversal using a subsequent, unlinked Order-in-Original that is under appeal is legally untenable. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 56 | Panila Chem Ltd. v. State of Gujarat | Click here | Interest at 6% is payable from 60 days post-refund application until actual payment when refund granted under an appellate order is delayed. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 68 | Narmada Drinks (P.) Ltd. v. Commissioner | Click here | Intra-State e-way bill exemption does not apply to inter-district transit; penalty proceedings for lack of e-way bill require fresh adjudication to verify portal glitch claims. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 68 | SRS Traders v. Commissioner. State Goods & Service Tax | Click here | Inter-district transit without an e-way bill cannot be retrospectively cured by generating e-way bills post-interception; detailed factual appraisal required on remand. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 73 | Trivesh Enterprises LLP v. Vijay Eknath Kumbhar, Joint Commissioner of State Tax | Click here | Vague SCNs issued without detailed facts and ex-parte orders confirmed via single-line allegations violate principles of natural justice and vitiate assessment proceedings. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 74 | RLCR 7Super Market v. Sunil N. Ranote, Additional Commissioner (Appeals) | Click here | Issuance of a single consolidated SCN and Order-in-Original for multi-year audit periods is legally valid as the statute prescribes limitation but does not mandate year-wise notices. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 74 | RLCR 7Super Market v. Sunil N. Ranote, Additional Commissioner (Appeals) | Click here | Extended limitation period and equal penalty under Section 74 cannot be invoked for returns-based mismatches without specific proof of intent to evade tax, fraud, or suppression. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 107 | Trivesh Enterprises LLP v. Vijay Eknath Kumbhar, Joint Commissioner of State Tax | Click here | Section 107 mandates statutory appeals to be decided on merits with reasons; dismissal of an appeal for non-prosecution (due to absence of taxpayer) is invalid. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 107 | Trivesh Enterprises LLP v. Vijay Eknath Kumbhar, Joint Commissioner of State Tax | Click here | Orders confirming demands solely due to retrospective cancellation of supplier registration without independent verification of taxpayer’s tax invoices, e-way bills, and payments are unsustainable. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 107 | Navitas Eduservices (P.) Ltd. v. Commissioner of CGST, South Delhi | Click Here | Under Section 107(11), the First Appellate Authority has no power to remand a matter to the Adjudicating Authority; it must decide the matter on its merits. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 113 | Narmada Drinks (P.) Ltd. v. Commissioner | Click here | Where foundational defects exist in transit penalty orders, Tribunal remand is restricted to allegations in MOV-07 without permitting new facts or enhancement. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 113 | SRS Traders v. Commissioner. State Goods & Service Tax | Click here | Tribunal remanded matter to original authority due to unidentifiable interception details and material errors in previous orders, restricting proceedings strictly to existing MOV-07. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 129 | SRS Traders v. Commissioner. State Goods & Service Tax | Click here | Plea of non-service of MOV-07 is barred under Section 160(2) when detention records and taxpayer’s contemporaneous reply show the notice was issued and acted upon. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 129 | SRS Traders v. Commissioner. State Goods & Service Tax | Click here | Generating e-way bills post-interception does not cure initial lack of e-way bill during inter-district movement; adjudication must distinguish minor lapses from substantive breaches. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 129 | SRS Traders v. Commissioner. State Goods & Service Tax | Click here | Payment of tax and penalty under protest/objection to release detained goods does not constitute a waiver or final acceptance of tax liability. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 129 | Narmada Drinks (P.) Ltd. v. Commissioner | Click here | Penalty imposed via a non-speaking order passed the day after interception, ignoring the 7-day statutory reply window, is unsustainable for breach of natural justice. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 129 | Mangal Sponge and Steel (P.) Ltd. v. Commissioner of State Tax | Click here | Transporting goods with an expired e-way bill without justification attracts penalty under Section 129, as proof of intent to evade tax (mens rea) is not required for this statutory contravention. |
| Central Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017 | Section 129 | Ghanshyam Null Singh v. Himanshu Verma | Click Here | Belated production of unauthenticated and inconsistent documents after interception fails to establish genuine coverage for undeclared goods, justifying detention. |

