Supreme Court · 1967 INSC 69 · Decided 21 March 1967
Shahdara (Delhi) Saharanpur Light Railway CO. LTD. v. The Municipal Board, Saharanpur
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1967 INSC 69 · [1967] 3 S.C.R. 243
- Case number
- CIVIL APPEAL No. 1323/1966
- Decided
- 21 March 1967
- Bench
- M. HIDAYATULLAH, S.M. SIKRI, C.A. VAIDYIALINGAM (3-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Appeal(s) allowed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution
Headnote
Indian Tramways Act, 1886 (11 of 1886) and Indian Railways Act, 1890 (I of 1890)-N"r!'ow-gauge railway between Shchdara and Saha­ ranpur----Originally registered as a Tramway under the 1886 Act-Rail­ ways Act made applicable to it in 1901-Company whether a 'railway' or a 'tramway' for from terminal tax levied by Saharanpur municipality under item 2 of Schedule B to the rules undtr the U.P. Municipalities Act I of 1918. The appellant company ran a narrow-gauge railway between Shah­ dara and Saharanpur. As it operated partly within the Municipal area of Saharanpur the
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