Pay Compensation for illegal detention of goods by VAT Department : HC

It is undisputed that the sole basis for detention of the tanker in question and seizure of the bitumen by the Respondent No.4 was the information collected by him from the toll plaza which revealed that last four digit of the registration number of the tanker in question was similar to the last four digit of registration number of a vehicle recorded in the records of toll plaza. It is also not disputed that the source of supply of bitumen from Mathura is only the Mathura Refinery of M/s Indian Oil Corporation. Even if there was some doubts about the genuineness

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