Supreme Court · 1971 INSC 130 · Decided 27 April 1971
Basappa Rudrappa Betgeri & ORS. v. Hubli Dharwar Municipal Corporation
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1971 INSC 130 · [1971] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 535
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2206/1966
- Decided
- 27 April 1971
- Bench
- J.M. SHELAT, VISHISHTHA BHARGAVA, I.D. DUA (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
Bombay Municipal Boroughs A.ct, 1925, ss. 73, 85-Levy of house tax by municipality on lessees of buildings owned by municipality-Validity of levy. The respondent Corporation was originally constituted as a Borough under the Bombay Municipal Boroughs Act, 1925 having been converted into a its jurisdiction and some of these were given on lease to the ap-­ pellants in 1953. The leases were renewed in 1955. Neither in the original leases nor in the fresh leases was there any mention of the liability of tho tenants to pay the house· tax. Subsequent to the execution of the
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