Supreme Court of India

Salonah Tea Company v. Superintendent of Taxes Nowgong & Ors. Etc.

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Reported as [1988] 2 S.C.R. 474
Bench Sabyasachi Mukherji J.
Decided 18 December 1987

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What the Court ordered

We are of the opinion that the High Court was in error in the approach it took.

Judgment, page 17

From the headnote

The money was refundable to the appellants. The writ petitions were within time. l484H] Per Mukharji, J. 1. No State has the right to receive or to retain taxes or monies realised from citizens without the authority of law. There is in such cases concomitant duty to refund the

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