{"act":{"id":"assam-goods-services-tax-act-2017","short_title":"The Assam Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017","long_title":null,"act_number":"28","act_year":2017,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":null,"department":null,"jurisdiction":"Assam","unit":"section","section_count":157,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"ocr","scan_url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/scan/fdbd939d-814c-496c-be80-1a4eb655bc6f.pdf","url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/assam-goods-services-tax-act-2017/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"134","heading":null,"text":"No court shall take cognizance of any offence punishable under this Act or the rules made thereunder except with the previous sanction of the Commissioner, and no court inferior to that of a Magistrate of the First Class, shall try any such offence. Presumption of culpable mental state.","html":"<p>No court shall take cognizance of any offence punishable under this Act or the rules made thereunder except with the previous sanction of the Commissioner, and no court inferior to that of a Magistrate of the First Class, shall try any such offence. Presumption of culpable mental state.</p>","words":48,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/assam-goods-services-tax-act-2017/section/134/","note":null,"source_note":"Read from the Government's own scanned gazette with Azure Document Intelligence, then split into sections by their numbering. India Code publishes no text for this Act. The scan itself is mirrored into our own storage and served at /scan/fdbd939d-814c-496c-be80-1a4eb655bc6f.pdf, so the reading here can be checked against the page it came from without depending on India Code's own copy staying where it is (it was at https://indiacode.gov.in/server/api/core/bitstreams/0ebad97c-7474-4c53-a1c0-f3c3582cb481/content).","judgments_note":"Judgment holdings are the ratio decidendi as extracted from the order by eCourts India, reproduced unaltered. Reported judgments only.","licence":"Published with commentary and other original matter under s.52(1)(q)(ii), Copyright Act 1957."}