THE STATE OF HARYANA vs DISTT.FOOD

The Supreme Court held that the exercise of revisional power under Section 40 of the Haryana General Sales Tax Act, 1973, after its repeal by the Haryana Value Added Tax, 2003, is unsustainable. The Court affirmed the High Court's decision that the repeal and saving clause in Section 61 of the Act of 2003 only saved pending proceedings, and since there were no such proceedings against the respondent, the revisional power could not be invoked. The Court emphasized that the application of the Punjab General Clauses Act, 1898, was excluded by the specific provisions of the repealing Act.