{"act":{"id":"delhi-goods-services-tax-act-2017","short_title":"The Delhi Goods and Services Tax Act, 2017","long_title":null,"act_number":"3","act_year":2017,"enact_date":null,"enforcement_date":null,"ministry":null,"department":null,"jurisdiction":"Delhi","unit":"section","section_count":174,"in_force":true,"spent":false,"spent_note":null,"duplicate_of":null,"text_source":"ocr","scan_url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/scan/a80716b6-b6b8-4a70-9070-1e71422b6495.pdf","url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/delhi-goods-services-tax-act-2017/"},"unit":"section","section":{"number":"135","heading":null,"text":"In any prosecution for an offence under this Act which requires a culpable mental state on the part of the accused, the court shall presume the existence of such mental state but it shall be a defence for the accused to prove the fact that he had no such mental state with respect to the act charged as an offence in that prosecution. Explanation .- For the purposes of this section,- (i) the expression \"culpable mental state\" includes intention, motive, knowledge of a fact, and belief in, or reason to believe, a fact; (ii) a fact is said to be proved only when the court believes it to exist beyond reasonable doubt and not merely when its existence is established by a preponderance of probability.","html":"<p>In any prosecution for an offence under this Act which requires a culpable mental state on the part of the accused, the court shall presume the existence of such mental state but it shall be a defence for the accused to prove the fact that he had no such mental state with respect to the act charged as an offence in that prosecution. Explanation .- For the purposes of this section,- (i) the expression &quot;culpable mental state&quot; includes intention, motive, knowledge of a fact, and belief in, or reason to believe, a fact; (ii) a fact is said to be proved only when the court believes it to exist beyond reasonable doubt and not merely when its existence is established by a preponderance of probability.</p>","words":125,"text_source":"ocr"},"classification":[],"instruments":[],"judgments":[],"corresponds_to":[],"url":"https://indiacode.ecourtsindia.com/delhi-goods-services-tax-act-2017/section/135/","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/a80716b6-b6b8-4a70-9070-1e71422b6495.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/7905c17c-0f89-430e-9228-75eb07a04102/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."}