Supreme Court · 2008 INSC 980 · Decided 26 August 2008
M.K. Palia & Sons PVT. LTD. v. Mumbai Municipal Corporation & Another
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 2008 INSC 980 · [2008] 12 S.C.R. 808
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 5242/2008
- Decided
- 26 August 2008
- Bench
- DALVEER BHANDARI, H.S. BEDI (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
Headnote
~.,._ Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, 1888 - Increase in rateable value ':'"" Challenge to, by lessee of Mumbai Port c Trust after 23 years - Held: Not justified - Rateable value of the property was revised from Rs.20, 1001- p.a. to Rs.2!5,6451 - in 1984~85 on account of increase Port Trust - Increase of Rs. 5, 5451- after 23 years is not exorbitant - . More so, lessee continued to pay increased rateable value D without any demur ti/11999 - Lessee by filing frivolous petition should not get undue advantage over all other 599 lessees, " 1 who have been regularly
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