India, Dec. 26 -- The Central government on Friday reportedly opposed a PIL in the Delhi high court seeking a slash in GST on the prices of air purifiers. The government claimed that any such court order without following the applicable process involved, can create a "Pandora's Box" situation.

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...