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Kandivali Cooperative Industrial Estate and Another v. Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai and Others

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Reported as [2015] 1 S.C.R. 989
Bench M.Y. Eqbal and Shiva Kirti Singh JJ.
Decided 4 February 2015

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What the Court ordered

Accordingly, we direct that the respondent­ authority shall not recover increased trade refuse charge at the rate of 10 per cent with effect from 2009.

Judgment, page 25

From the headnote

Mumbai Municipal Corporation Act, 1988 - s.368(5) - Trade Refuse Charges - Imposition - Revised by the Circular dated 11.10.2011 issued by Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai - Propriety of - Held: The competent authority under the Act has the power to notify Trade Refuse Charges to be collected from its trade /icencees - However, provision under clause (6) of the Notification to increase trade refuse charge by 10% every year from the year 2009 is arbitrary, without guidelines and violative of principles of natural justice - Therefore, the authority directed not to recover any increased

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