Supreme Court of India

Ultra Tech Cement Ltd. v. State of Maharashtra & Anr.

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Reported as [2011] 11 S.C.R. 613
Bench R.V. Raveendran, A. K. Patnaik and Sudhansu Jyoti Mukhopadhaya JJ.
Decided 27 September 2011

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What the Court ordered

We hold that the appellant is not liable to pay GP cess also.

Judgment, page 14

From the headnote

MINERAL CONCESSION RULES, 1961: c r. 27 (1) (d) - Mining lease ...; Lessee from the State Government - Demand for Zilla Parishad Gess (ZP cess) and Gram Panchayat Gess (GP cess) - Held: Where a particular cess is /eviab/e under an enactment, and the contract says that the lessee is liable to pay such cess leviab/e under that enactment, but the enactment exempted a specified class of persons (to which the lessee belongs) from paying the said cess, the State Government cannot make the lessee liable to pay the said cess on the ground that under the contract entered under a different eneactment,

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