(1.) Leave granted.
(2.) Appellant herein is engaged, inter alia, in the printing of questions papers for examination boards, competitive examination boards, recruitment boards and various universities and boards situate outside the State of Uttar Pradesh. It carries on a highly specialized and secretive work. The activities of the appellant admittedly amounts to a works contract in the course of inter-State trade or commerce.
(3.) The Central Sales Tax Act, 1956 (for short, 'the 1956 Act) was enacted to formulate principles for determining when a sale or purchase of goods takes place in the course of inter-State trade or commerce or outside a State or in the course of imports into or export from India, to provide for the levy, collection and distribution of taxes on sales of goods in the course of inter-State trade or commerce.