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Oil, Vanaspati is essentially an oil although it is a different kind of oil which forms its basic ingredients. It retains its essential properties and merely because it has been subjected to certain processes would not convert it into a different substance even though it is being sold as unhydrogenated form, Champaklal H. Thakkar v. State of Gujarat, AIR 1980 SC 1889: (1980) 4 SCC 329. [Minimum Wages Act, (11 of 1948), Sch. Part I, Item 5]