Centre opposes plea seeking GST cut on air purifiers, calls it 'calculated'

A division bench of Justices Vikas Mahajan and Vinod Kumar was listening to a plea seeking directions to include air purifiers in the category of ‘medical devices’ and reduce GST on them, Bar and Bench reported. The GST was requested to be reduced from 18 per cent to 5 per cent.

According to the report, opposing the PIL, Additional Solicitor General N Venkataraman, representing the Centre, said that if the current GST council mechanism is bypassed in this case, “This will open a Pandora's Box."

Noting that the government is not saying whether it will be done or not, he added, “The Parliamentary committee has recommended something to us. It will be considered. There is a process.”