Supreme Court · 1978 INSC 13 · Decided 24 January 1978
Shambhu Nath Palit v. Corporation of Calcutta and ANR.
- Court
- Supreme Court of India
- Citation
- 1978 INSC 13 · [1978] 2 S.C.R. 606
- Case number
- SPECIAL LEAVE PETITION (CIVIL) No. 5097/1977
- Decided
- 24 January 1978
- Bench
- V.R. KRISHNA IYER, JASWANT SINGH (2-judge bench)
- Outcome
- Dismissed
- Case type
- Civil
- Acts & sections cited
- Constitution Article 14
Headnote
Calcutta J\funicipal Act, 1951, S. 202~Whether the pro\·isions of Thika Tenancy Act a bar to the recovery fro111 tile tenant by a landlord, of the rates levied and collected by the Corporation as an owner 11/s 202 of the Municipal Act. The petitioners challenged the levy and collection of huts constructed and occupied by their tenants on the lands leased to the latter. The Calcutta High Court, taking the view that S. 202 of the· Municipal Act, 1951 provided for collection by the owner of the land of so much of the rate a_s is attributable to the hut which belongs not to the
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