Supreme Court · 1992 INSC 72 · Decided 12 March 1992
Dehri Rohtas Light Railway Company Limited v. District Board Bhojpur and ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1992 INSC 72 · [1992] 2 S.C.R. 155
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 3250/1983
- Decided
- 12 March 1992
- Bench
- M. FATHIMA BEEVI, S.C. AGRAWAL (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 22fr
Headnote
B Bengal Cess Act, 1880 : Sections 5 and 6-Cess-Payment of-Unregistered agreement entered int~Demands made ignoring such agreement-Legality of. C Constitution of India, 1950: Article 22fr-Writ-:Remedies claimed-Party otherwise entitled to the remedy-Whether disentitled on the sole ground of !aches of running a light railway and was liable to pay cess under Section 5 of the Bengal Cess Act, 1880. By way of an unregistered agreement entered into between the appel- D lant and tlie respondent it was agreed that the appellant would pay a fixed sum of Rs.10,000 p.a. towards cess irrespective of
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