Sales tax Act, S. 33-C,
” Section 33-C creates a statutory charge that prevails over any charge that may be in existence. Therefore, the charge thereby created in favour of the State in respect of the sales tax dues of the second respondent prevailed over the charge created in favour of the bank in respect of the loan taken by the second respondent. There is no question of retrospectivity here, as on the date when it was introduced, section 33-C operated in respect of all charge that where then in force and gave sales tax dues precedence over them…”
State of Madhya Pradesh v. State Bank of Indore, (2001) 126 STC 1 (SC)
