Supreme Court of India

Chitra v. State of Kerala & Ors.

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Reported as [2015] 9 S.C.R. 752
Bench Vikramajit Sen and Shiva Kirti Singh JJ.
Decided 21 August 2015

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What the Court ordered

We hold that a party is entitled to seek a remission G in the payment of licence fee if it is precluded from transacting business on the strength of that licence because of factors and reasons extraneous to it and/or if it is granted the licence on the direction of a Court for only a portion of the financial year.

Judgment, page 7

From the headnote

Foreign Liquor Rules: rr. 13, 14 - Entitlement to pay proportionate annual rental instead of full annual rent applicable for the year in respect of FL3 licence granted to appellant-licencee - Due to third party suit, injunction granted restraining excise commissioner from issuing the said licence to the appellant for use at her hotel- Claim of appellant that she was disabled from utilising the licence ,tor the full period because of third party intervention - Legality of demand to pay the fee for the entire year despite the truncated period of use by the appellant for no fault attributed to

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