Supreme Court · 1976 INSC 74 · Decided 23 March 1976
Mahapalika of City of Agra v. Agra Brickkiln Owners' Association & ORS.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1976 INSC 74 · [1976] 3 S.C.R. 827
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 2446/1969
- Decided
- 23 March 1976
- Bench
- Y.V. CHANDRACHUD, V.R. KRISHNA IYER (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Case Partly allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 276, 142A(2), 136
Headnote
Constitution of India, 1950, Art. 276, Government of India Act, 1935, s. 142A(2) and U.P. Nagar Mahapalika Adhiniyam (U.P. 2 of 1959), s. 172, proviso-Scope of. In 1947 the State Government issued a notification imposing a tax under s. 128(1) (ii) of the U.P. Municipalities Act, ~916, on brick suit for a declaration that the tax was void and not exigible. The suit was decreed. The appellant appealed to the High Court. By that time the U.P. Nagar Mahapalika Adhiniyam, 1959, had come into force, replacing the 1916-Act. Section 172 of the 1959-Act corresponds to s. 128 of the 1916-Act
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