Supreme Court of India

Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai and Anr. v. Kamla Mills Ltd.

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Reported as [2003] SUPP. 1 S.C.R. 500
Bench Ruma Pal and B.N. Srikrishna JJ.
Decided 11 July 2003

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What the Court ordered

In the result, we allow the appeals and set aside the judgments of the High Court and Small Causes Court.

Judgment, page 22

From the headnote

Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act; Section 154(1): Property Tax­ Assessment of rateable value after demolition of old building before construction of new one-Rateable value-Criteria-Determination of-Held: rateable value is limited to standard rent-Rent/licence fee in excess of standard rent is illegal-Since the Act neither contains a definite clause nor a non-obstante clause nor lays down manner of computation of rateable value, it has to be determined as per relevant provision of Rent Restriction legislation-Bombay Rent Control Act-Sections 2(3)(g), 5(10) and 7. Burden of proving what the

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